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Obligatory fuck Nintendo, but don't make too much light out of this lawsuit. They're aren't attacking the legality of emulation itself (which has a ton of precedent defending it) but are instead trying to convince a judge that Yuzu is a DRM circumvention tool.
If they land a technologically-inept judge that believes decryption itself constitutes circumvention regardless of how it's used in the bigger picture, there's a decent chance the argument might have some teeth. Or, because there's no precedent for this, the lawsuit will drag on until Yuzu runs out of money and is forced to settle.
If it's within your financial means, please donate to Yuzu. If they lose this lawsuit, the precedent it sets will open up other emulators that work with encrypted ROMs (e.g. Dolphin and Ryujinx) to similar lawsuits.
I think it's about money, just like with Vanced. Google didn't care for the hacked YouTube client before the team behind the mod tried to make money off of it. Now Yuzu did the same and Nintendo went after them.
Tachiyomi didn't try to monetize tho, still got taken down
Tachiyoumi is a different case, they absolutely could win but didn't have resources to go to court.
How did they try to monetize?
Patron that boomed with totk being leaked, but that's hardly their issue
what did they do?
Are you absolutely joking? I'm not donating one cent to those clowns. I hate Nintendo and corporations with a passion, but Yuzu coding their emulator to support an un-release game -- and making money off of it -- is obviously the most illegal shit. There's literally no way for emulating a pre-release game to be legal -- how would you legally obtain a ROM of that? They did this to themselves. They're going to way of Bowser rather than other emulators.
Edit: Oh would you look at that, looks like Yuzu settled and is paying Nintendo 2.4 million dollars. That's weird for a """non-profit open source project""" to do.
They did nothing to support totk before the release date as even stated in this article from pcgamers
The game only happened to run without any work by them (and it's understandable after 6 years of development and the various documentation already available for the switch's tegra chip) and this is happening every time a new game for the switch is released.
Tell me you don’t understand what emulation means without telling me you don’t understand what emulation means