Nintendo is sueing Yuzu
Nintendo is sueing Yuzu
Nintendo is sueing Yuzu
Can you imagine Sony losing their shit because they found out people were watching Hotel Transylvania on non-Sony brand DVD players?
goddamn it, I really hope that Nintendo will get laughed out of court, but it seems to me (IANAL) that they may have a case. Although Yuzu will have some defenses as well.
Ars Technica has a writeup about this, that seems decent.
They expect that this won't go to trial, because yuzu won't be able to pay for it.
Maybe the community should think about changing that.
I'd float 'em a couple bucks to fight Nintendo. Nintendo's track record for these types of cases is terrible. Reading their arguments, this doesn't look any different from other cases they've made against emulator developers or 3rd party cart developers; which Nintendo has all lost.
The switch also allows people to unlawfully play pirated games.
I'd love to see that happen "Your honor,..."
Fuck you Nintendo
Lets sue knife companies because someone got stabbed with one of their knives
Yuzu is meant to be another console, were lawfuly obtained games for the switch console can be played. If someone used it wrongfuly, its not yuzu's fault. (Not that I pay for switch games, but that's what's stated in yuzu's website and terms)
Either yuzu fights in court, or doesn't do anything, or they take yuzu down and fork it to Zuzu or whatever they come up with
Here's hoping Nintend'oh gets laughed out of court. Didn't it already get settled that emulation is perfectly legal? Particularly by a Nintendo suit before?
Emulation itself is legal, which is why the complaint is about circumvention of protections under the DMCA.
Nintendo alleges that Yuzu does that, and while it needs the help of prod.keys for it, yuzu does give instruction on how to obtain that. Nintendo argues that this shows how Yuzu is there (primarily) to break their protections.
Now, Yuzu has some defenses.
Most realistic outcome (as I expect):
Yuzu is taken down, the open source project continues, but at a much slower rate. The Case is dropped.
The outcome that I'd love to see (but seems way less realistic):
Yuzu gets a significant bump in donations from people angry about this, decide to go to trial and wins.
Result: Yuzu gets more money, Nintendo has cemented more protections for Emulation.
Unfortunately, Nintendo has some decent counterarguments for those defenses.
It gets even more bleak.
prod.keys
to play games.If it goes to court, Yuzu would need some really deep pockets, good lawyers, and a technologically competent judge. I hate to say it, but the most likely outcome, in my opinion, is a settlement giving Nintendo exactly what they want.
I would love to see the EFF or some philanthropic multimillionaires bankroll Yuzu throughout this and set a precedent in their favor, but like you said, it seems way less realistic.