Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages

Re:Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.... by aaomidi on Monday March 04, 2024 @01:49PM (#39594317)

Folks. This is not about piracy at all. It is also not about copyrights or whatever.

It's about the shitty part of DMCA's anti-circumvention.

If you want to see how stupid this law is, look at the number of exemptions given for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

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Re:Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.... by aaomidi on Monday March 04, 2024 @01:59PM (#39594455)

I'll also go as far to say, if you support Nintendo here. You also are supporting Apple shutting down Asahi linux.

All Apple will need to claim is that Asahi is bypassing some "client side protection", and Asahi is shut down.

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Re:Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.... by jamesgeck0 on Monday March 04, 2024 @03:04PM (#39595274)

Apple Silicon machines have a "permissive security" mode which allows booting unsigned third party kernels. Asahi isn't circumventing anything, this is a officially supported feature.

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Re:Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.... by mcphage on Monday March 04, 2024 @03:08PM (#39595336)

> All Apple will need to claim is that Asahi is bypassing some "client side protection", and Asahi is shut down.

Is Asahi bypassing some client side protection?

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Re:Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.... by Wowfunhappy on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:10PM (#39597413)

Apple spent substantial engineering effort modifying their iOS bootloader so that Apple Silicon Macs could load third party kernels.

If Apple wanted to kill Asahi Linux, they could just remove this functionality from iBoot.

Apple will not remove this functionality, because they would not have added it in the first place if they did not want people to be able to use it.

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