Nintendo of America is suing the creators behind the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, claiming their tech facilitates piracy.

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.

@NoLifeKing@ani.social
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Cars are used for driving around but some people use it for accidents and drunk driving! Ban cars!

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Would your comment be as sarcastic if you replaced cars with guns? Doubt it.

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@NoLifeKing@ani.social
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Eh… Guns are specifically made to kill something or make holes in it, so thats another thing.

And yet cars kill a lot more people than guns.

Not in the United States they don’t.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/116-people-died-gun-violence-day-us-year/story?id=97382759/

Only if you count suicides. The countries that don’t have guns still have suicides, so banning guns would not prevent those deaths.

Only if you count suicides. The countries that don’t have guns still have suicides, so banning guns would not prevent those deaths.

That’s like if I was to say “only if you count fast cars. The countries that don’t have as many fast cars still have accidents, so speed limits should be universally abolished.”

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Well, actually its not true, if you don’t have access to stuff that kills you basically instantly many people would think a little more before doing that, maybe even go to a therapist.

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South Korea has no guns and people manage to jump off bridges just fine

SK has a much higher suicide rate than the US, so maybe the underlying issue should be fixed instead of trying to impose higher barriers to people trying to kill themselves

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This is such a idiotic statement.

Even putting pills in blister packs caused a statistically significant drop in OD suicides using OTC drugs.

Turns out that many people just need a bit of resistance to stop them from implementing a permanent solution to a temporary situation.

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Yeah,

Get fired -> go to car shoot head

Is a lot faster than

Get fired -> Go home -> unpack 40 pills -> take them

The unpacking makes you rethink your choice and most realize that the choice they are about to make is not a good one.

If you cant have a gun in your car or by your side all the time the probability of a Short Closing Reaction is significantly lower.

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And yet there is a difference between legitimate accidents and deliberate killings…

Also, your road safety in muricaland is completely ridiculous and the cars that drive on your roads are hazardous as hell, maybe fix that and the rates of death from accidents go down.

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Nonironically yes

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I think @Fake4000@lemmy.world made a solid point here.

Nintendo goes after those that make money. That includes ROM sites too. For example, Nintendo didn’t sue Dolphin developers, they told Valve to take down their software. Please correct me if I am wrong.

I am not saying that Nintendo goes only after those that make money but maybe a money papertrail takes away the anonymousness of the internet. Bank accounts makes finding people a whole lot easier.

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Nintendo behaves illigaly or at least absolutely amoral. If you make money with your product or not is not up to some other company to decide.

It is when the product is using their IP to violate copyright laws.

I fully support emulators and pirating, but I don’t lie to myself about it being legal or ethical.

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Reverse engineering isn’t a IP violation… And the emulator group isn’t responsible for people using pirated software on it, that pirated stuff would run on the original hard and software as well.

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If you read the lawsuit Nintendo is suing because Yuzu acknowledges their software can’t run without the Switch’s decryption keys. Yuzu also has instructions to extract the decryption keys on their website. So Yuzu is not completely reverse engineering how the Switch runs games.

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The keys aren’t something you can reverse engineer, they are a “security” feature and make shure that people can only use it when they own a switch and the game…

Oh please, that’s the same argument of, “It’s not a bong, it’s a tobacco pipe.” Yeah, they might call it that to circumvent the law, but everyone knows damn well that 99% of users aren’t using it for that.

They’re profiting off selling a tool that breaks encryption and bypasses copyright protections. The profit is the issue here.

While I support their efforts, I can also realize that Nintendo absolutely has a right to try to stop them, and it’s not unethical for them to do so.

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Amorally, probably. Ilegally? No, they are not.

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Nintendo suing and pressuring around may be illigal in some countries where they operate… Especially regarding the steam thing.

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So what purpose does an emulator server legally speaking? And I don’t think anyone uses their car for accidents.

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There have been multiple instances of cars being driven into crowds, accidents is probably not the right word, i should say terrorism.

And emulators are for people who bought a game for a console that broke, so now they play it on PC because they own the game.

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especially true for when manufacturers stop supporting the console you invested into, stops making replacement parts, issuing security patches, etc. Having the ability to make, repair and use copies of the games you purchase is critical to digital preservation.

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Exactly

But let’s be real though. Getting a car and driving it a crowd on purpose is an extraordinarily small percentage of car users. You can’t say the same about emulation. A torrent site I frequent has 28000 downloads of Smash Bros Ultimate. I don’t believe for a second there are 28000 broken copies people are trying to replace.

Don’t get me wrong, I love emulation. It has huge benefits! Access to out of print games, higher framerates and resolutions. But I’m not going to pretend piracy isn’t a massive component of it, particularly on current gen systems.

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You’re either missing the crux of the argument entirely somehow, or your rebuttal is complete shit on purpose.

None of your points are the fault of Yuzu’s creators.

Just like: gun manufacturers cannot be sued for school shootings, Salinger couldn’t be held liable for the frequency his seminal work was found in psychopaths’ belongings, and Oscar Meyer isn’t at fault when you lost a non-zero amount of their meat products up your ass. Just sayin’.

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Increased user accessibility, backing up and ensuring continued usability of purchased software, democratizing hardware choice, allowing for continued community support for software that has been abandoned, teaching people how software works in relation to different hardware…

Legally, you’re allowed to make copies of games that you own and use them in an emulator. You can download mods, play multiplayer across the Internet when servers get shut down and also take advantage of better hardware and get better resolution and framerates, then there are quality of life improvements like savestates.

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In addition to “format shifting,” which is a well-recognized use case, and game preservation, which is a huge and under-recognized public interest in emulator development, emulators are also used for the development of homebrew software. E.g., there’s a port of Moonlight for the Switch, which lets you play Steam games streamed from a PC using your Switch, letting it serve many of the purposes of a Steam Deck. That’s huge! It would be way less practical to develop this kind of software if you could only test on real hardware. Testing on real hardware is also essential, of course, but testing on an emulator is vastly faster for rapid iteration.

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So what purpose does an emulator server legally speaking?

They provide compatibility for software made to run on one platform to work on another.

Providing compatibility is one of the most protected use cases of reverse engineering in US law.

And I don’t think anyone uses their car for accidents.

Lots of terrorist groups do.

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Never heard of banger racing?

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