Well, here we go. Nintendo have formally filed a lawsuit against the creators of the popular open source Switch emulator yuzu.
  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    Huh. Nintendo specifically claims in the filing that “hacking a Nintendo Switch console” (as in using Fusee Gilee on a first-gen hackable Switch) is “unlawful.” I wondef if that doesn’t mean that they’ll go after Switch homebrew projects like Atmosphere and Hekate next.

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Apple already lost their argument about jailbreaking with the courts. Nintendo should have read the memo.

      • Deello@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        They did, they just didn’t like the outcome. Now they want their turn to set precedent so they can take out emulators for more consoles. I wish somebody had the money to stand up to them.

  • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    Blizzard actually won an argument that Nintendo could use, tbh.

    Against the automation program “Glider”, they argued successfully in court that copying the game into ram facilitated copyright violation. The courts ruled against Glider, because they don’t understand how basic fucking computer operations are performed.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    10 months ago

    Nintendo give an example in their complaint with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom saying that it was “unlawfully distributed a week and a half before its release by Nintendo” and that copies of it were “successfully downloaded from pirate websites over one million times before the game was published and made available for lawful purchase by Nintendo”.

    Back when I was on that shithole other link aggregation website, I said this would happen because people couldn’t wait 7 more days for the public release before bragging about emulating TotK and sharing the ROM around.

    Now, we all risk Yuzu stopping development because of it. Foresight is 20/20.