Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit
www.theverge.com
Just about a week after getting sued.

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/

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    4 months ago

    If you circumvent the copyright protection systems to do so, then under American law yes. If you don’t like this, you have to campaign for change.

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      4 months ago

      Do you believe there is a chance of success for campaigning for change?

      • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        Every few years, more things are added as exceptions to the DMCAs circumvention clause. There’s a whole host of exceptions, and they are all exceptions in favor of people over companies. Those exceptions came about because people who care fought for them.

        • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          4 months ago

          Do you have any specific examples and how long it took, or how much it cost? It seems farfetched to think it is feasible to counter the “anti circumvention technology” aspect of the DMCA.

          • pivot_root@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            6·
            4 months ago

            Wikipedia has an entire list of anti-circumvention exceptions under the page for the DMCA. I have no idea how those exceptions came to be or how much money and time was involved to make it happen, but it does seem to be changing in our benefit over time.

          • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            How is it far fetched when there’s a literal bunch of examples you can go find right now? You’re basing your estimation on zero evidence and doomerism.

            Try, apply yourself. Don’t just assume.

            • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              If I’m as successful changing law as I am changing minds on the internet then doomerism is an understatement.