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Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

you mean the MiGSwitch, a device for dumping and preserving switch ROMs? I would love to have one for personal backups, and it pairs well with yuzu. Team Xecuter is credibly presumed to be the developers, so that's likely Bowser's current hobby.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No, I mean charging money for pirated copies of games

    Bowser helped create and support online libraries of pirated videogames for its customers, and several of the enterprise’s devices came preloaded with pirated videogames.

    This behavior was never condoned by the Yuzu developers

    Piracy was never our intention, and we believe that piracy of video games and on video game consoles should end.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you really believe that the last statement by yuzu is their own opinion? It really reads as it was written by a Nintendo lawyer and they just needed to sign it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yuzu has always expressed that opinion about piracy publicly. Whether they actually believe that is another matter, but it's nothing new for them to say that.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Basically every emulator developer will say that their platform is not for piracy but for backing up your legally purchased games, but it's usually just a "wink wink nudge nudge" type of thing for legal reasons.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    This is what Nintendo wants people to think. They want you to think hacking your own hardware is synonymous with copyright infringement. And it's categorically not. Just like collecting knives isn't synonymous with committing murder.

    I agree that Yuzu was toeing a fine line when they should have instead steered far clear of it and only supported playback of homebrew apps without encryption, but that's not to say they did anything ethically wrong. Backing up your own files shouldn't be a right we lose just because of criminals walking around "wink wink, nudge nudging" each other. Punish the murderers, not the knife sellers.

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