Re:Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2....
by SmallDeadGuy on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @03:29AM
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The yuzu people were doing things that are morally reprehensible. From what I've heard:
* They managed a private discord with hired moderators that actively encouraged piracy.
* They saved important releases to coincide with major game releases like TOTK. These releases would include performance optimizations and bug fixes specifically for those games.
* These important releases would initially only be available behind a patreon paywall (like the private discord), so they actively profited off people trying to get the latest release specifically for pirating the latest games.
It's pretty simple: don't target people who aren't doing things that are morally reprehensible, even if it's a systemic threat to your company (cue the laughter from the capitalists who can't understand anything beyond industrial machinations). Evolve and adapt to include them in your assets, or die while the fitter companies do. Someday, someone's going to have more money than Nintendo and they will force Nintendo to do whatever they want them to. I'm just hoping its sooner rather than later. They've earned every second of their demise. Fuck any company that thinks lawfare is excusable as 'might makes right'.