Tropic Haze – the company behind the emulation software Yuzu – has responded to Nintendo's summons that accuses the com…
    •  M500   ( @M500@lemmy.ml ) English
      23•4 months ago

      I’d like to read into it a bit.

      It said they put a lawyer on retainer which tells me they are planning to fight it.

      If they just wanted a lawyer to review the case, they would have just paid for legal research or a consultation.

      So I think this tells us a bit.

  •  electricprism   ( @electricprism@lemmy.ml ) English
    78•4 months ago

    Maybe Nintendo should sue the power company for providing electricity for those people who played Zelda ahead of time.

    While they’re at it they should sue VMWare too and maybe reboot the API lawsuits of Oracle vs Google.

    •  tias   ( @tias@discuss.tchncs.de ) English
      14•4 months ago

      Not that I agree with the morality of what Nintendo is doing but their claim is that the emulator can’t be used for anything meaningful besides piracy, whereas electricity is a general service that has lots of varying uses.

      •  empireOfLove2   ( @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
        10•4 months ago

        their claim is that the emulator can’t be used for anything meaningful besides piracy,

        Which, mind you, the filed brief is explicit about calling ALL emulators as nothing more than piracy tools… Says the company whose own hardware (Switch) is running emulator software to play older games. There is no technical difference except the manner in which the ROMs were loaded. They shouldn’t be able to have their cake and eat it too.

      •  Excrubulent   ( @Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ) English
        9•4 months ago

        Until machines reach end of life and break, and nintendo won’t offer any official way of playing the games that people own - because of course they won’t. We already know they don’t even allow savegame backups without a BS subscription fee.

        Emulation and piracy are very important ways of keeping a historical record of digital works that otherwise would vanish. We have countless examples of abandonware being kept alive by piracy.

        Also I’m considering jailbreaking my wii because the games I bought - including one just a couple of weeks ago - are becoming impossible to play because the discs just don’t last. I’ve had to clean this second hand one off many times to keep playing it. It’s piracy, sure, but without it the entire catalogue would just vanish. If nintendo had their way the only way to keep those games would be to pay them a subscription for the rest of time.

        •  Jako301   ( @Jako301@feddit.de ) English
          2•4 months ago

          Yuzu decrypts the games with your prod.keys which already means circumventing anti piracy measures. Pretty much all countries that care about piracy (EU and US) have anti-circumvention laws that make this action illegal, even if its for your own use of your own games. No matter how stupid it may sound, there is no possible way to ever use Yuzu in a legal way in most of the first world.

      •  flora_explora   ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English
        4•4 months ago

        Isn’t this comparable to utilities you buy for smoking weed (talking about countries where it is still illegal) like a bong or a special grinder? They are only really used for doing something illegal but it is still legal to buy them.