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 @[email protected]:

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

  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlineEnglish
    212·
    8 months ago

    You might own the hardware, but you don’t own the rights to the OS that runs on it. The encryption key is part of that software.

    It’s not a hard concept to grasp. If I was openly selling a tool to break the activation lock on Windows, I could expect the same result.

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Sony tried to claim ownership of an encryption key and were justifiably mocked for trying to own (edit: copyright to) a long number. A number tied to a copy of Windows can be owned/resold in Europe - I don’t know the exact legal justifications but needing the key to actually use the software you paid for probably has something to do with it. Nintendo chooses to encode a key exactly because copyright law prevents people decoding it, otherwise I could use software I paid for how I want and on hardware I choose.

      I think user software freedom aught to be a more known concept in society.

    • mashbooq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      That’s a ridiculous idea. If I buy a computer with an OS that has an encryption key to protect the hard drive, and later I need that key to remove my data to another system, I have an entirely reasonable expectation that I’m allowed to do so, regardless of how much the computer manufacturer doesn’t want me to.