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Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 139 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Reminder that poor Gary Bowser was jailed for a year and owes 30% of his income to Nintendo for the rest of his life. He uses a wheelchair and has two kids.

It would be morally wrong to pirate all future Nintendo titles and pay the cover price to Gary's gofundme. Please don't do that.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 20 points 8 months ago

Please don't conflate an open effort to own your own hardware and data with a closed effort to literally sell access to copyrighted content under the table, and try to launder the profits and commit fraud. Yuzu and Bowser are not the same.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

you mean the MiGSwitch, a device for dumping and preserving switch ROMs? I would love to have one for personal backups, and it pairs well with yuzu. Team Xecuter is credibly presumed to be the developers, so that's likely Bowser's current hobby.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 months ago

No, I mean charging money for pirated copies of games

Bowser helped create and support online libraries of pirated videogames for its customers, and several of the enterprise’s devices came preloaded with pirated videogames.

This behavior was never condoned by the Yuzu developers

Piracy was never our intention, and we believe that piracy of video games and on video game consoles should end.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 10 points 8 months ago

Do you really believe that the last statement by yuzu is their own opinion? It really reads as it was written by a Nintendo lawyer and they just needed to sign it.

[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

Yuzu has always expressed that opinion about piracy publicly. Whether they actually believe that is another matter, but it's nothing new for them to say that.

[-] kenopsik@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

Basically every emulator developer will say that their platform is not for piracy but for backing up your legally purchased games, but it's usually just a "wink wink nudge nudge" type of thing for legal reasons.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is what Nintendo wants people to think. They want you to think hacking your own hardware is synonymous with copyright infringement. And it's categorically not. Just like collecting knives isn't synonymous with committing murder.

I agree that Yuzu was toeing a fine line when they should have instead steered far clear of it and only supported playback of homebrew apps without encryption, but that's not to say they did anything ethically wrong. Backing up your own files shouldn't be a right we lose just because of criminals walking around "wink wink, nudge nudging" each other. Punish the murderers, not the knife sellers.

[-] Encamped@lemmy.ml -1 points 8 months ago

Also believe his (proprietary) software would brick switches if it detected other software, though don't quote me on that.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 12 points 8 months ago

Does 30% of the gofundme go to nintendo?

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 19 points 8 months ago

Google says yes

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago

There's no way that kind of punishment is allowed by the 8th amendment. This is definitely an unusual punishment.

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