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.