This is pretty disastrous, the things Nintendo is suing over are things that apply to pretty much all emulators, it would be a very dangerous precedent to set if Nintendo were to win this one

And even if they don't win, it's still very shit that they're even able to use lawsuits as a scare tactic, that they can ruin people's lives even without needing to win

Also, daily reminder that "piracy equals lost sales" is nothing but corporate propaganda, often it's the opposite actually:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/pirates-more-likely-to-pay-for-legal-content-choice-survey/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pirates-tend-to-be-the-biggest-buyers-of-legal-content

  • mattreb@feddit.it
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    9 months ago

    Yuzu [...] allows for the play of encrypted Nintendo Switch games on devices other than a Nintendo Switch.

    That's pretty much the whole statement, claiming this to be a crime is just infuriating.

    It's like claiming that you can't use the ink inside a printer cartridge you bought, unless you use it with the specific branded printer.

    • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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      9 months ago

      But Yuzu is not the thing that decrypts it. They're saying that the fact you're using Yuzu means that someone somewhere has done something illegally, and that Yuzu should be held accountable for other people doing other things.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      I'm fairly sure that's a thing, too, lol. I went to buy a printer recently and couldn't find a decent one in my price range because they're all essentially leased nowadays. It seems you have to use their ink and you can only get it via monthly subscription. Even if your cartridge had ink left in it, you wouldn't be able to print with it unless you had enough page credits. Fuck that.