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Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]". (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by pivot_root to c/technology

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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 @[email protected]:

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

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There's a different kind of judge now than the technologically illiterate?

[–] pivot_root 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] deathmetal27 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

He's William Alsup, who presided over the Oracle vs Google case about Java API copyrightability.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alsup#Notable_cases

[–] pivot_root 3 points 8 months ago

Thank you. I need to bookmark this glorious man's Wikipedia page.

[–] samus12345 3 points 8 months ago

Then companies must go out of their way to avoid them.

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 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.