Nintendo is suing the makers of the Switch emulator Yuzu, claims ‘There is no lawful way to use Yuzu’::Nintendo of America is suing the maker of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, saying it “unlawfully circumvents the technological measures” that prevent Switch games from being played on othe
Can’t development just be moved out of the US? Like in my country even downloading copyrighted materials isn’t a crime, only uploading so emulators are like double legal.
Developers can’t just move… they will always be a target themselves.
It might have helped to have the HQ elsewhere, so to say. Well, too late now.
Do you have any idea how hard and expensive it is just to move out of the US without brining a company with you?
There’s no way they could afford that, even if they found a country that would take them.
Moving into the EU is probably not that hard, but to be extra safe you’d have to gain EU citizenship somehow and renounce your US one.
EU copyright is pretty bad. How would that help them?
Breaking DRM is legal in the EU.
…in very limited circumstances, just like in the US.
Don’t like every single large company have a 1m x 1m basement in Ireland where their HQ is technically located in for tax reasons? Just do the same thing but for copyright.
Got it. Just spend millions of dollars that the developers of a free open source program definitely have just lying around.
Well since it’s an open source project then just have only people from safe countries publish the changes and code contribution is somewhere private. Don’t include the names of anyone in the US for sure. That’s the idea I’m alluding to.
Though if you wanna take it literally, you can buy the tiniest possible place as a front for your company for like 5k euros here.
Where is that? Asking for a friend.
Australia. Not sure if it counts for everything, but AFAIK for movies pirating them is okay as long as you’re not sharing (i.e. uploading, seeding, etc.) and it’s for personal use.
Estonia
Thanks. FWIW I’m pretty sure that what they are accused of is illegal in all the EU because of the copyright directive.
Most EU countries aren’t following the copyright directive actually. Only Germany, Hungary, Malta and Netherlands are.
Most of South America.
Brazil, for instance, tacitly encourages piracy. Because foreign media is too expensive for locals to be able to regularly afford it, so the entire country’s foreign media consumption is basically fueled by content piracy. It’s sort of an open secret, where everyone just openly downloads or streams pirated content and the government doesn’t give a fuck.
I hate nintendo. I know a lot of ppl that plays the game with their our bought copies all legal on pc just because it RUNS BETTER. Nintendo…
Yeah that’s me. I owned the games on switch first, then later played them on PC because they ran better and I could mod them. But Ninty is arguing that since playing the games requires encryption keys from a legitimate Switch, that the emulator is impossible to play legally. Because they argue that the act of extracting those encryption keys is illegal, so using them to play your own games is also illegal.
Never mind the fact that you already own the console, and therefore own the keys that are stored on the console. But Nintendo basically argues that buying the console and the game only gives you a license to play the game on a legitimate console using the licensed keys, so emulation is a violation of that software license and the DMCA.
It’s a piss poor argument. But with the way the courts are stacked these days, they may actually win. And if they win, the precedent could have horrible implications for any emulation later than the PS2/GameCube generation.
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There’s a Switch Emulator? Sweet!
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Even better, there’s two!
Ryujinx and Yuzu are both competent emulators even though the Switch is Nintendo’s current console
not sure if they have a case, even if lawful uses of it are very rare, it doesn’t mean the software itself is illegal (pretty sure this kind of thing has been settled in court before)
At least here in the states reverse engineering is totally legal. So generally emulators are legal to build. That said Nintendo can and will make their life difficult regardless of whether or not the emulator itself is taken down
This time around, Nintendo is arguing that by using
prod.keys, Yuzu is a copyright protection circumvention product in violation of 17 USC §1201 (a)(2).No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
© is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person’s knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
The reverse engineering protection under the DMCA only applies to 17 USC §1201 (a)(1)(A), so there’s a very real and very scary possibility of Nintendo winning this one and setting a precedent if they can convince a judge that Yuzu’s is primarily for DRM circumvention.
Yuzu doesn’t ship with prod.keys. You need to provide them from your legally ripped switch. And the guides outline that (https://yuzu-emu.org/help/quickstart/#dumping-decryption-keys). Nintendo needs to go after sites that provide those keys, not Yuzu…
Yuzu doesn’t provide them… Yuzu goes out of it’s way to tell you how to get them legally. I’m not sure that Yuzu has circumvented anything.
Nintendo could have a claim against tools like Hekate, since that’s the tool that has to decrypt stuff to dump it. But I’m not sure that would fly either.
The interesting part of this lawsuit is that it doesn’t matter whether Yuzu provides
prod.keysor not. Nintendo is going after them for using the keys to decrypt things, framing the emulator itself as being a Switch DRM circumvention tool.
That‘s the thing with huge, shitty corporations. Even when they know they‘re absolutely in the wrong, they can still go after the small fishes and make their lives hell.
To give another example, LEGO has been flooding small toy sellers in Germany with cease and desist letters for selling sets from competitors that might look like knock-offs to some, but are perfectly legal because LEGO does not own the brick system. And of course they would never go after Amazon for doing the exact same. Only small sellers that are ruined if they can‘t scrape the money together for a proper legal defense.
Shouldn’t it be unnecessary to spend on defense if there have been dozens of similar cases with the same result?
I mean not existing laws, just possible optimization against such kind of abuse.
There have been cases where small sellers lost even though the really really shouldn‘t have by any means. But show a german judge in their 50s a gundam and a transformer and they‘ll say they look identical and it‘s plagiarism. LEGO being a huge name tends to win the most ridiculous cases here sadly.
OK, if in theory IP can be defended (I wouldn’t agree still), in practice it just should be abolished (except for falsifying authorship being illegal).
Missing knowledge is probably the problem. Either from small sellers that don’t know that they’ll win, or from lawyers that don’t offer to work pro bono for the same reason.
What worries me is they think they have a case. Nintendo isn’t dumb. And they have known about Yuzu for a long time. Something must have changed recently that made them think this would be worth it.
Just being an expensive pain to the developer dissuades future developers.
Why now then? Why not a couple years ago when Valve teased that you could use Yuzu on the Steam Deck?
They do specify cite the Tears of the Kingdom release and increasing revenue to Yuzu, maybe that motivated them more.
Anyway I don’t mean they certainly have no case. We’ll see.
That was 9 months ago. Still odd that it took so long.
Nintendo has lost this type of case before. Their strategy is usually to drain the defendant of cash.
Fuck Nintendo! Glory to the emulators
story as old as time…nintendo sues * insert piracy/emulation/gameplay video*
Thank you, Barbra Streisand-san.
For those also learning about Yuzu thanks only to Nintendo’s lawsuit, let’s save you a search:
Is it just the Linux 64 version of yuzu that you use for steam deck, or is it a different one?
I imagine the Linux 64 version would be the correct version for SteamDeck. I haven’t tried it, yet.
Because I respect Nintendo’s intellectual property more than I love fiddling with interesting technology. /s
I know if you use steamdecks desktop you can flatpack install Yuzu, but if they have to remove it from flatpack due to the lawsuit, that won’t end up helping things later on.
And bookmarked.
You’ll need this too…
Good thing there is still ryujinx
I think yuzu is associated with more piracy because FitGirl et al include it in their pirate releases for games with Denuvo
For now
I’ll be shocked if they’re not next.
I’m donating to yuzu now. Fuck off Nintendo.
…so if I wanted to test my Switch game before I apply for a proper dev kit i’m now officially shit out of luck? Thanks, Nintendo!
Correct. They want you to buy a dev kit for $450.
Just downloaded a copy this morning.
Just because it’s not lawful (according to them) don’t mean it’s not a good idea.
Maybe if their Switch was priced better and games were cheaper, I’d get one.
Maybe if you weren’t so poor you’d get one heyooooo!
Ha I ain’t poor. I got a custom PC and a PS5. But Nintendo just over charges their stuff. My gf has one of her own, I never played it. Just don’t really have interest in Nintendo games.
Now if the Switch was about $250 new, I might get one and it’d probably collect dust. I stopped playing Nintendo after the GameCube.
Wow. A copyright lawsuit where Lemmy isn’t rooting for the establishment. Won’t anyone think of the poor, starving artists?!
Are you lost?
No, just disappointed.
Can you point out an example of anyone here who roots for the establishment? It’s kind of contrary to the purpose of federation.
EG 2 weeks ago, there was a post that had people calling for making robots.txt legally binding. Very disappointing.
How in the world is people wanting giant tech companies to stop violating every single technological oriface for every bit of data they can get their hands on to feed to their AIs dissapointing?
Lol. Yeah, sure. Tech companies would be accused of circumventing robots.txt. It’s not like being able to monopolize information would benefit them or anything. It’s not like that’s not already happening.
When you make harsher laws against trespassing, you’re not locking in the people in the big mansions.
I’m just disappointed by the complete absence of any rational thought.
“They already do it, so we should just let them” and then getting mad at the people trying to stop them is kind of a psychotic take. Unchecked corporate power is how we got to this point and refusing to ever hold them accountable is not going to make it better. Genuinely, what NON MALICIOUS reason could there even be for a small company to need violate robots.txt, and how on earth would that give them any leg up over google?
And you come at ME with “abscence of any rational thought”. Truly vile.
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