Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
by monocasa on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:38PM
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I don't believe so (the Sony v. Bleem cases mainly ended up in favor of Bleem), but also I don't think anyone has tried since the DMCA. It looks like Nintendo is taking a 'trafficking in circumvention device' legal strategy as opposed to a strictly anti-emulator legal strategy.
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Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
by stonogo on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:09PM
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DMCA was in effect the year before Sony first sued Bleem -- and it's notable that Bleem mostly won the lawsuits, but legal fees bankrupted them anyway.
Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
by monocasa on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:20PM
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The DMCA was in effect but not applicable to the case since the DRM scheme of the PS1 doesn't block access to the files of the disc, but instead simply attempts to block the usage of non DRMed media on legitimate PS1s.
Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
by Natsu on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @09:58PM
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It's funny, the game companies lost the emulator court cases. But the companies behind those emulators still went out of business.
Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
by hn_acker on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @04:19AM
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Right. What I hate about copyright is that winning a copyright infringement lawsuit with a fair use defense (fair use being by definition not infringement [1]) will still bankrupt you because of the legal fees.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp.#...