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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] 99 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I started out in the computer industry working for a company that reverse engineered and built IBM compatible terminal systems, This was more than 40 years ago, when that was its own large and profitable sector of the computer hardware market. It was absolutely legal to build 'plug compatible' reverse engineered third party systems. DRM is almost entirely horseshit that has helped turn the entire tech industry into silo'd enshittified monopolies.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Nothing capitalists say about feudal rights mean much of anything. More or less the entire tech industry isn't allowed to have non-competes and it's such a big field because of it.

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

Then people will argue capitalism incentivizes innovation.