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Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu (overkill.wtf)
submitted 8 months ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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New documents filed Monday, February 26 reveal that videogame giant Nintendo is taking action against the creators of the popular emulator tool Yuzu.

The copyright infringement filing, from Nintendo of America, states that the Yuzu tool (from developer Tropic Haze LLC) illegally circumvents the software encryption and copyright protection systems of Nintendo Switch titles, and thus facilitates piracy and infringes copyright under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Nintendo alleges that Tropic Haze's free Yuzu emulator tool unlawfully allows pirated Switch games to be played on PCs and other devices, bypassing Nintendo's protection measures.

The official Yuzu website suggests that the tool is to be used with software you yourself own: "You are legally required to dump your games from your Nintendo Switch" — but it's common knowledge, that this is not how these tools are primarily used.

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[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 126 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They should go one step further and ban the programming language as well the emulator was created in. That will show them!

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 51 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I say we ban technology.

[–] Wootz@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What about a technology permit, so you're only allowed to develop technologized products if you get a permit from the Ministry of Proprietary Technology.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 17 points 8 months ago

Great idea comrade, glory to Arstotzka!

[–] UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago

Big Brother is developing

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 points 8 months ago

So like copyrights and patents?

[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 8 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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[–] nivenkos@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

The EU's AI Act isn't far from this really. Regulating the development of AI so much, it'd be like if they regulated compilers to stop GNU back in the day.