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Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]". (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by pivot_root@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code.

The GitHub repo page for Yuzu now returns a 404, as well. In addition, the repo for the Citra 3DS emulator was also taken down.

As of at least 23:30 UTC, Yuzu's website and Citra's website have been replaced with a statement about their discontinuation.

Other sources found by @Daughter3546@lemmy.world:

There is also an active Reddit thread about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1b6gtb5/

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[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Does it matter? I suspect that if that's what you did, you were one of very few people doing so, and the law doesn't require the absence of any possible legitimate use. In this case, something is illegal if it

is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

has only limited commercially significant purpose or use

[-] null@slrpnk.net 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You asked if there was a significant use-case. That's what it is, and why emulators have remained legal up to this point.

How many people take advantage of that use-case over piracy is a different point.

Also the law has not decided anything here, yet. As far as the law is concerned, emulators are still legal.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's a use case, but I would argue that it's not a significant use case.

Emulators are still legal in theory, but I doubt that it is in practice possible to make an emulator for a modern video game system without violating some other part of the law.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago

It's a use case, but I would argue that it's not a significant use case.

And that's the answer to your question about what Yuzu would have fought if they had the money to take on Nintendo.

Emulators are still legal in theory, but I doubt that it is in practice possible to make an emulator for a modern video game system without violating some other part of the law.

That's exactly what hasn't been determined, since Yuzu settled and it didn't go to court.

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