Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit
www.theverge.com
Just about a week after getting sued.

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/

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      It shouldn’t be illegal, but it is because the law about it was written by the industry 25 years ago because our lawmakers think the internet and indoor plumbing work the same way.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Nintendo’s angle is more along the lines of:

      • We gave our friend Switchy the keys to a lockbox.
      • You tricked Switchy into giving you our keys.
      • We didn’t authorize you to use those keys.
      • Using our keys without our permission is circumventing our DRM.
      • Yuzu is a tool that enables you to use our keys.
      • It’s illegal to distribute tools to circumvent DRM.

      It’s a massive reach, but it’s a plausible argument—or even a good one if the judge is a technologically illiterate luddite. Beyond that, Nintendo is the kind of litigant that will drag out a lawsuit until the other party is forced to settle.

      • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        A court in Germany has recently decided that reading the code of a software you legally purchased and finding plain text passwords there is illegal hacking.

        The person was hired to do a security audit (by a third party) and disclosed the finding to the software developer, not even to his own employer.

        The developer decided to sue him instead of fixing the problem.

        At this point I have lost all trust in the technological capacities of judges out there.

    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlineEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Because you’re using the system outside of its intended purpose to break the law. That’s basically the definition of hacking.

      I’m not sure why it being illegal to sell a tool to do that is a hard concept to grasp for so many people.

      I’m not against emulation or pirating, but no shit this was going to happen eventually.

      • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        The electronic key I purchased and collected from my own hardware is “hacking” because Nintendo’s doesn’t intend it? Maybe the legality of selling a tool to get the key is a hard concept to grasp because the premise is objectionable. If a Switch makes a good doorstop then it will be doing it’s “intended purpose” if that’s what I intend for my property.

        I’m against companies having unjust control over our own computing.