Nintendo Accuses Console-Emulator of Hacking Mario Kart, Zelda
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The video game emulator Yuzu circumvents encryption on Nintendo Switch games, making them available on other platforms like personal computers and mobile phones in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, according to a lawsuit from Nintendo of America Inc.

Nintendo’s full case filing

https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1762576284817768457/

"NEW: Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo’s software encryption and facilitates piracy. Seeks damages for alleged violations and a shutdown of the emulator.

Notes 1 million copies of Tears of the Kingdom downloaded prior to game’s release; says Yuzu’s Patreon support doubled during that time. Basically arguing that that is proof that Yuzu’s business model helps piracy flourish."

  • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Isn’t moonie the dude who shit talked Karl Jobst and ended up deleting his video because Jobst called him out on how wrong he was on pretty much everything and how terrible his research was. Like literally just watched a couple YouTube videos level research? Don’t know if I can trust someone who would fuck up THAT bad. I get people make mistakes sometimes but that’s just complete negligence especially for someone with an audience that big.

    • Essence_of_Meh@kayb.ee
      1·
      9 months ago

      No idea, I’m only familiar with some of his videos so can’t say one way or another. Is there any place I could read about it?

      Edit: Also, I believe the video I mentioned has links to specific legal documents surrounding this case so it should be easy to fact check. Still, I’m not trying to whitewash the situation you wrote about would love to learn more if it happened.

      Edit 2: A’ight, while I didn’t have time for a deep dive I did manage to confirm that situation happened.

      I sucks since the videos I’ve seen seemed reasonably researched and now I’m wondering whether that was a one-time screw up or a normal thing that simply wasn’t caught more often. Guess I’ll try to look into it more when I’m free.

      • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        0·
        9 months ago

        The video by Karl Jobst himself on the matter is pretty informative and has proof to back up all of his claims. Iirc moonie also quoted legal statue and stuff on his video but was rebuked my Karl as well, don’t quote me on this though, I’ll have to rewatch that video to confirm. Here’s the link. Moonie did end up apologizing in the end and Karl did tell his viewers right off the back to not harass Moonie.

        If you like LONG form reasonably researched videos about all sorts of topics check out Hbomberguy. He’s great.

        • Essence_of_Meh@kayb.ee
          1·
          9 months ago

          Iirc moonie also quoted legal statue and stuff on his video but was rebuked my Karl as well

          Yeah, that’s why I’m planning to look into whether that was a screw up or not, thanks for the link too.

          I’m familiar with HBG but it’s always good to mention him.