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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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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 @Daughter3546@lemmy.world:

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

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[–] 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Easy. Game preservation.

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  • [+] -13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Game preservation is explicitly exclusided from the dmca true, but only only when the game needs online servers which have now been shut down.

    So it would not work in this case at all.

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  • [+] -27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They settled because they actively endorsed and proliferated illegal piracy.

    They couldn’t play that angle with what they were doing.

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