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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't need to set any kind of precedent. That was set decades ago in this case.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Nintendo isn't arguing against emulation itself, they're challenging Yuzu on the anti-circumvention part of the DMCA. There isn't precedent for going against emulators using that yet AFAICT; Sony v. Bleem is entirely unrelated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes/Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley and others.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that applies in this case since DeCSS was unambiguously and primarily designed to strip DRM (with interoperability as a consequence), while Yuzu was primarily designed to emulate a system (with DRM "circumvention" as a consequence).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago

They put features into yuzu to specifically decrypt games (if you provide a key), it's the same thing.