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Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ (www.theverge.com)

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[-] kautau@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Do they have a patreon? I think part of Nintendo’s extermination policy is “if you try to make money from it, it’s lost revenue, and we will murder you.” For example dolphin has been around forever, but always open source and without a patreon or the like

EDIT:

Answered my own question

RIP

https://www.patreon.com/ryujinx

[-] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Just speculation, but there must be a reason why they target Yuzu but not Ryujinx. Maybe because Ryujinx is open source and there is nothing illegal in the code?

Edit: A word.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago

But yuzu is open source as well: https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu

My guess is they are just tackling one thing at a time, and ryujinx is next on their chopping block. It’s entirely possible they’ve already sent cease and desist notices to to ryujinx

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

If Yuzu is open source why is the public version way behind the patreon one? Legit question, this must be why it's a prime target since Ryujinx doesn't do that, there's only one version.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

Because on their argument, that is "paywalled" until it becomes public.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Can the paywalled version be found hosted anywhere? I'm expecting Yuzu to get scrubbed from most of the Internet very soon, so I want to grab the latest stable release.

[-] Kanzar@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Yuzu pineapple apparently.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nintendo's argument in the filing is that Yuzu is designed primarily for circumventing the Switch's encryption (a.k.a. copyright protection measures). Their justification is that Yuzu uses prod.keys to decrypt various things like the ROM filesystems and the system firmware*. Ryujinx also uses prod.keys, so they would be just as legitimate of a target for that argument as Yuzu is.

Personally, I think they chose to go after Yuzu first because it's more popular and runs at playable framerates on modern Android devices. If the lawsuit goes in Nintendo's favor, I guarantee they'll immediately use that precident to make the same argument against and swiftly kill Ryujinx.

*This is actually a valid argument that is not affected by past suits like Bleem v. Sony.