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Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 8 months ago by sirsquid@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 100 points 8 months ago (15 children)

unlawfully hacking a Nintendo Switch console

What? It's my hardware, Apple lost his battle with jailbreaking years ago, Nintendo just shit out an already lost argument.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 32 points 8 months ago (10 children)

This is not really the same thing.

The Apple lawsuit was about running unsigned code on the iPhone, which courts deemed that Apple couldn't use copyright as a tool to enforce its walled garden.

Nintendo isn't arguing about people modifying their switch to run homebrew. They're arguing that to use Yuzu you need to provide it with a copy of the decryption keys and system firmware which must be either extracted from a Switch or distributed illegally.

This is a much stronger case in Nintendo's favor, than the Apple jailbreak one. Although, I suspect the Yuzu dev has a better case as it's already legal to back up discs and ROMs as long as you dont distribute them and they're not responsible for other people's actions if they choose to break copyright

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Emulation has also been litigated to hell and is also very clearly legal.

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