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Yuzu emulator shutting down, paying Nintendo 2.4 million in lawsuit settlement (gbatemp.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah their problem was to make it a commercial operation. At that point it's trivial for Nintendo to show they've enriched themselves on the back of ripped ROMs by enabling them.

Whereas if you do everything for free and don't even accept donations, they'd have a big problem showing that you have any commercial interest and hence can be sued for damages.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem is that this shit is a lot of work that we all benefit from... So how do we compensate the devs?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

We don't, that's kinda the point. If you want to compensate the developers, you should buy their games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

How about the work of the devs that made the game...?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reverse engineering software (and even using small bits of proprietary code when required) in order to make it compatible with other hardware is fully legal (tons of precedent, for emulation specifically see Sega v Accolade and Sony v Connectix), and selling emulators commercially is also fully legal (Sega v Connectix was about a commercial Playstation emulator for the Mac, Sony v Bleem was about a commercial emulator for the PC and Dreamcast)

Nintendo's legal claims against Yuzu are completely untested and dubious at best, it's the threat of spending millions of dollars on lawyers that's very real and effective, they are yet again simply weaponizing the courts and the DMCA like all the other corpo scum before them