Nintendo Accuses Console-Emulator of Hacking Mario Kart, Zelda
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The video game emulator Yuzu circumvents encryption on Nintendo Switch games, making them available on other platforms like personal computers and mobile phones in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, according to a lawsuit from Nintendo of America Inc.

Nintendo’s full case filing

https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1762576284817768457/

"NEW: Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo’s software encryption and facilitates piracy. Seeks damages for alleged violations and a shutdown of the emulator.

Notes 1 million copies of Tears of the Kingdom downloaded prior to game’s release; says Yuzu’s Patreon support doubled during that time. Basically arguing that that is proof that Yuzu’s business model helps piracy flourish."

    • ZeroMmX@lemmy.worldEnglish
      635·
      9 months ago

      Brother… Nintendo’s net income last year was 3.1 BILLION dollars. There is no “fighting Nintendo”.

      Let’s be real homie. Yuzu is done. Downvote me all you want after I post this.

      As much as we all love Yuzu, the dev’s had to have known this was coming.

      I don’t want to be one of those dudes that keeps harping on the “Nintendo should be FOR preserving old games”. We all know Nintendo will continue to kick down ANYONE so much as glancing in their I.P. 's general direction.

      Nintendo does what you Nintendon’t want. Always.

      Extreme capitalism stifles and suffocates innovation and preservation.

      • Robaque@feddit.itEnglish
        14·
        9 months ago

        Extreme capitalism stifles and suffocates innovation and preservation.

        It’s an inherent contradiction of capitalist competition. Somehow everyone is supposed to be competitive but noone is supposed to win for capitalism to “work”. Otherwise it’s considered a monopoly and “anti-competitive”.

        Ironically this requires collaboration.

        • ZeroMmX@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I had a feeling my adjective was too much.

          The way you explain it makes me picture an ouroboros where, instead of the snake eating it’s ass, it’s the ass eating the snake.

      • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        I kind of doubt this because Yuzu doesn’t actually have any of the cryptographic key material that Nintendo could have a valid reason to sue over. They only offer instructions to dump keys, which has to be argued is causing harm because its completely legal to do on consoles and games that you own.

        Dolphin ships with the Wii’s AES key but Nintendo never pursued them in court.

        Most likely Nintendo won’t get anywhere and only get Yuzu to remove some wiki pages and stuff which will make it slightly harder to use or slow down development by threatening more lawsuits.

        • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          9 months ago

          Nintendo know this. What everyone seems to be missing is that defending yourself in lawsuits also costs money.

          Apple does this shit all the time.

      • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        I’d like to seem them dump all those dollars in a legal battle they can’t win. Imagine if they succeed with the judge. They will lose their audience.