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]".
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]".
Just about a week after getting sued.
Crossposted from !technology@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/12728165
This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code.
The GitHub repo page for Yuzu now returns a 404, as well. The website is still up, though.
Very disappointing news. I hope that none of the Yuzu developers are personally harmed by this settlement.
I also wonder if Ryujinx is next.
I see the Patreon gated facilitation things like EmuDeck and Emulation Station, being the low hanging fruit Nintendo's lawyers reach for next. Easy path to profiting from facilitating IP infringement.
Ryujinx at least doesn't make it 'too easy' and AFAIK isn't profiting, so perhaps a battle Nintendo walks away from with a stern attempt at a C&D and focus elsewhere.
Wonder what the fork will be called?
Nuzu. or Ponzu.
Ponzu: Yuzu, Salty Edition
I prefer "FukUzTu," pronounced as fuck-youz-too.
A fork named spitefully by a community that they tried to squash.
[yuzu agrees to] hand over any “physical circumvention devices” and “modified Nintendo hardware” to Nintendo.
You will own nothing and like it.
What should happen is a judge should recognize that Nintendo's behavior is categorically worse for consumers: not allowing them to modify their own hardware, not allowing them to make copies of their own data, not allowing users to build their own hardware and software on which to execute their own data in a way that creates a demonstrably better experience for the consumer. You know, innovation.
What will happen is that money is the judge and jury, and if corporations don't get every last million they want out of consumers, they'll sue it out of them as "damages".
I would say vote with your wallet, but gamers have never once exhibited a backbone. The next pokemon game could just boot up to a low-res jpeg of pikachu that crashes after 20m, and it would still make millions. And Nintendo knows it.
Well damn, another win for Nintendo. Can't say I didn't see this coming. I have yet to see Nintendo going after someone legally and losing. Surprised the came to such a quick settlement though. Sucks about the github page being taken down.
Why is Citra affected by this too? Nintendo isn't gaining money from 3DS anymore so emulating 3DS doesn't affect them in any way.
The Yuzu developers are the same team that created Citra. If it wasn't directly required as part of that settlement, it's out of an abundance of caution.
Part of the settlement is that the individuals responsible for Yuzu would permanently stop working on circumventing Nintendo's DRM, and working on Citra could land them a follow-up lawsuit with even harsher penalties for breaking the previous settlement.