[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/feb/01/the-man-who-ow...
> Bowser has now managed to secure housing, and he thinks that after rent, he has a couple of hundred dollars leftover for food and other necessities. He assumes he’ll be turning to food support services.
Nintendo's not being compensated any meaningful amount. This is nothing more than a lifelong public flogging. And for what?
The point was that if you have deeper pockets than your opponent then you're able to leverage the legal system to make life hard and stressful for them.
Nintendo has deep pockets and the will to go after anyone it considers a threat to its business model.
to be fair, they're not unique in this space. but the perception of them as "the family-friendly gaming company" has always been some very big amount of nonsense.
His own actions and the legal system are why he is where he is today. Nintendo isn’t putting him anything, unless you now think that Nintendo controls legal decisions that are handed down.
This seems like a massive stretch to ask a judge to sign off on, since it pretty radically expands what the DMCA covers. If were to come into force, you could slap some encryption on any piece of software and block anyone from interoperating with it.
Hell, I just even knew about Yuzu because of that lawsuit. #streisand
The same way Bowser did, I suppose. Wage garnishing + whatever Patreon money they earned?
Apparently it's estimated to have made some $1.2 million from patreon so that may help
>why did they settle for that much?
Bad crooked lawyers that said they had no chance or very good lawyers that said they had no chance. IANAL, so I can't truly say which.
> isn't strict emulation legal? Maybe not in the US...
It is AFAIK, apparently the judgement's big argument here is
>Developing or distributing software, including Yuzu, that in its ordinary course functions only when cryptographic keys are integrated without authorization, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s prohibition on trafficking in devices that circumvent effective technological measures, because the software is primarily designed for the purpose of circumventing technological measures.
Again, I don't know how much water that holds.
>is there something fishy that was hidden somewhere?
Depends on if you think whether or not it would have cost more than $2.5m dollars to fight nintendo in a full battle. I imagine Yuzu doesn't have such funds nor means to. So this was the cheapest option for them.