Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit
www.theverge.com
Just about a week after getting sued.

This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code.

The GitHub repo page for Yuzu now returns a 404, as well. In addition, the repo for the Citra 3DS emulator was also taken down.

As of at least 23:30 UTC, Yuzu’s website and Citra’s website have been replaced with a statement about their discontinuation.

Other sources found by @Daughter3546@lemmy.world:

There is also an active Reddit thread about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1b6gtb5/

  • pivot_root@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    161·
    8 months ago

    Nintendo’s angle is more along the lines of:

    • We gave our friend Switchy the keys to a lockbox.
    • You tricked Switchy into giving you our keys.
    • We didn’t authorize you to use those keys.
    • Using our keys without our permission is circumventing our DRM.
    • Yuzu is a tool that enables you to use our keys.
    • It’s illegal to distribute tools to circumvent DRM.

    It’s a massive reach, but it’s a plausible argument—or even a good one if the judge is a technologically illiterate luddite. Beyond that, Nintendo is the kind of litigant that will drag out a lawsuit until the other party is forced to settle.

    • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
      21·
      8 months ago

      A court in Germany has recently decided that reading the code of a software you legally purchased and finding plain text passwords there is illegal hacking.

      The person was hired to do a security audit (by a third party) and disclosed the finding to the software developer, not even to his own employer.

      The developer decided to sue him instead of fixing the problem.

      At this point I have lost all trust in the technological capacities of judges out there.

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      If I’m not authorized to use those keys, how do I use Switchy?

      I guess all Nintendo games are illegal to play by that argument, even with their console

      • pivot_root@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        I can’t quite remember the name, but there is actually at least one U.S. judge that takes the time and effort to learn about the technology in depth before making a ruling.

      • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        8 months ago

        Not sure it will ever get better. Maybe a single person being allowed to decide a case that requires a technical understanding should be consulted by experts in it. I guess a better lawyer probably should have made that happen (shouldn’t have to). But, as the old geezers die off and the younger “tech savvy” people take over, they will no longer be young or tech savvy, technologywill keep progressing and pass us up too. And you don’t want an actual young person as a judge. So… the system is just broken.