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
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      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
        1·
        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.