yuzu pays $2.4M to settle lawsuit with nintendo and shuts down development 
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24090357/nintendo-yuzu-emulator-lawsuit-settlement
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Fricking cowards. They absolutely had a case here, and they made enough noney to fight this...
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They were profiting off piracy bro
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Yes, but that didn't matter for Bleem!. This absolutely would have helped reinforce those old rulings or help set a clear line in the sand for acknowledgement of an emulator's purpose.
Instead they settled, what a shame.
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The difference is those softwares required that you use a playstation disc, Yuzu can only load ROMs and more than that most people don't have a CD drive anymore. Also, bleem went out of business because of lawsuits...
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Bleem also didn't have thousands of dollars a month in consistent revenue...
True, but this isn't one of the emulators that provides and roms or bios files. All that was byob, which could be legal if you have an og switch.
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It's hard to defend in court, I'd argue. Even if a person were to own an actual switch, the ROM could only be obtained illegally.
The final primary defense of Connectix, the playstation emulator, was literally that you still had to buy the game, so it was only competing for console sales, not game sales.
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sounds like a switch to me
therefore jailbreakable legally
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Switch only for games though.
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There are ways to dump ROMs. Obviously people aren't doing this but legally there is a case to be made. Problem is whether or not the dumping constitutes a DMCA violation by circumventing anti piracy measure.
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True but Yuzu itself isn't anything. It's like saying a DVD player can be used to facilitate piracy since it can read burned discs.
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Why do you keep ignoring the profiteering?
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Because that doesn't mean shit. Paid for emulators are perfectly legal. The problem is that Yuzu was apparently using stolen keys which is the big nono here.
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No one own's a CD reader anymore, so the argument that existed back then doesn't work. Also dumping ROMs isn't necessarily legal, Bleemcast and Bleem could exist because they required the use of proper PS discs. Yuzu does not.
Yuzu also encourages, what is essentially illegal use of a development kit on their website.
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I'm not saying the Yuzu devs aren't r-slurs. I never liked them for hiding builds behind patreon paywalls. Ryujinx supremacy.
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I added a bit more to my comment.
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I get what you mean but assuming the design to be clean room, the emulator itself would be legally fine. It seems that Yuzu devs weren't doing this and as such opened themselves up to a lawsuit.
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