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Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu by tombert on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:38PM (#39531145)
Yuzu is open source isn’t it?

Nintendo can’t be completely incompetent here; if they get Yuzu shut down someone will inevitably fork it, and they have to know this.

Presumably this is a play to try and establish precedent. They know that this lawsuit means nothing in itself, even if they win, but it can then be used to go after Retroarch or Higan or Mupen64 or Dolphin. This is bad.

Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu by Root_Denied on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @08:31PM (#39532755)
It's worse than bad, Nintendo's argument seems to boil down to "decryption = circumvention", even if you have a legit keys.prod file from your own system. The full text goes into detail about how Nintendo thinks that using a decrypted keys.prod file is circumventing their DRM.

There's so many second and third order consequences from a legal precedent for that it boggles the mind, and I'd hope that any judge that understood that should dismiss this lawsuit with prejudice. My fear is that it goes the other way and an injunction is successfully put in place against Yuzu.

Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu by freedomben on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @06:20PM (#39531587)
By ensuring there's no funding of the project, they can cripple it and ensure it will always be far behind the mainline product. It will also scare a lot of people off who don't want to risk getting wrapped up in a lawsuit for their weekend hobby
Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu by joemi on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @06:46PM (#39531853)
> Presumably this is a play to try and establish precedent.

Of course it's to establish precedent. They can't file a case against "Yuzu and any future Switch emulators that don't exist yet". But that doesn't mean that it means nothing in itself. A victory against an emulator would be somewhat of a deterrent and would likely reduce piracy somewhat, at least for a little while.

Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu by catwoe on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @06:16PM (#39531540)
I honestly cannot wrap my head around the need for an LLC. It's an open source project, why would you need a company?
Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu by Klonoar on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @08:35PM (#39532784)
If you’re accepting money somewhere, an LLC has potential advantages. It’s not an outlandish idea at all.
Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu by tombert on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:07PM (#39532063)
IANAL, but if there's a risk of being sued by a big corporation because you're making a product that they believe is stealing from them, wouldn't it make sense to shield yourself personally from being sued?

Like, if I write a piece of software that does something innocuous, such as indexing files or something, then I probably wouldn't bother getting any kind of LLC, but I'm very unlikely to get sued over that. Nintendo, however, is famously litigious, has made their stance on emulation very clear, and has no problem going after individuals who dare to defy them. I think doing all the development through an LLC can limit Nintendo going after the individuals.

Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu by frio on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @11:37PM (#39534068)
Open Source doesn't necessarily mean free of charge, but even when it does (most of the time), plenty of people still choose to pay for open source products today (eg. Red Hat). A product being open source doesn't mean the people working on it shouldn't be paid somehow; in particular, Yuzu do early releases and other closed-source-ish things (which is one of the reasons Nintendo is able to bring something to court here).