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yuzu will pay $2.4 million in damages to Nintendo to settle their lawsuit
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Tal Shiar Agent
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Garbage.
demented waffle
Member
That was a quick settlement.
Hero_Select
Member
You can't win again those Nintendo lawyers
abstract alien
Member
I'll never understand why people think Nintendo won't come for them.
FingerBang
Member
Wait, how much are these people making from Yuzu, and will they still be able to work on it in the future??
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
Damn. That was quick. Not even asking for a dmca takedown of the emulator or anything?
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
lmao wow.
Probably not getting a switch 2 emulator from these guys
Probably not getting a switch 2 emulator from these guys
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
I'm assuming this also means Yuzu will be halting development?
demented waffle
Member
Better to try and end it than this going to court. No telling what a jury's decision would be. I wonder what it means for it now tho.
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
Like the doug Bowser guy was forced to pay his lifetime salary to Nintendo and these guys just get 2.4 million dollars to repay. Could've at least asked for a cease on dev of the emulator.
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LordOcidax
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So they stop supporting the emulator (no further versions) and give to Nintendo 2.4 Millon… Not a bad deal, i could be worse.
Ron Mexico
Member
There was never a chance it was going to trial. Surprised though by both the speed of a settlement and the paltry sum.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
On one hand, bad.
On the other, surprised they didn't wring more out of them. Doug Bouser owes them more than $14 million.
On the other, surprised they didn't wring more out of them. Doug Bouser owes them more than $14 million.
Topher
Gold Member
Here is the full joint motion:
Question is what does the "Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction" say. I'm guessing that is a separate document.
LordOcidax
Member
Yes
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
I'd maybe go download the latest mainline build from Yuzu's website right now, just in case.
Holammer
Member
Afaik, they sued because they had a guide on the web page how to dump your own roms which included jailbreaking the unit?
Topher
Gold Member
Won't know that until we see the injunction document. I would assume so.
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Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
Either coming up with another paid emulador and hope for the best, or spend most of their life paying it
tusharngf
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demented waffle
Member
Way too much legalese. Would be nice to see what the IANAL( I am not a lawyer, you pervs) TLDR is.
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jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
It's open source and on GitHub, the last release was two hours ago lol
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64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
They make 30k+ a month off of their patron, i'd assume they have enough to pay off the suit
Topher
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It's open source and on GitHub, the last release was two hours ago lol
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I'm guessing if/when the court accepts the motion then the action required in the motion will be undertaken.
IFireflyl
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My guess is that the injunction won't preclude the Yuzu team from working on the emulator, but will force them to remove any documentation or any other form of assistance in making the emulation possible. If the injunction is that they need to abandon the emulator, then I would have fought that tooth and nail (assuming, of course, that everything else they did was above board). It's possible Nintendo said, "Hey, you screwed up legally. We could take you for more than $2.4 million, but we'll settle for $2.4 million as long as you abandon Yuzu entirely."
Ron Mexico
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The embedded link to Lockpick_RCM on the Yuzu site (which in turn just let to a DMCA takedown notice on Github) was the only thing that was noticeably changed.
The lawsuit at its core was about the keys. They've issued a takedown on the tool to dump the keys. Yuzu is still actively updating its builds as of a couple hours ago.
This is also at least ideologically consistent with pulling Dolphin from Steam due to the inclusion of the keys.
It's early yet, sure, but any thoughts about ceasing development on Yuzu may be more than a bit premature.
The lawsuit at its core was about the keys. They've issued a takedown on the tool to dump the keys. Yuzu is still actively updating its builds as of a couple hours ago.
This is also at least ideologically consistent with pulling Dolphin from Steam due to the inclusion of the keys.
It's early yet, sure, but any thoughts about ceasing development on Yuzu may be more than a bit premature.
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U n i o n 0015
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$2.4 million is a lot of money that could've taken emulation law through the courts so that Nintendo can't pull this stuff in the future. But I kinda assume most people that work on emulators are autists who don't want to fight in court.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
I wonder how long until someone will makes a fork of Yuzu and how fast the emulation community will get an emulator up for the Switch 2 regardless of this outcome.
Because I still stand by the idea that this was also a scare tactic to get developers to stay away from a Switch 2 emulator.
Because I still stand by the idea that this was also a scare tactic to get developers to stay away from a Switch 2 emulator.
squarealex
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StereoVsn
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Yeah, this basically puts some fear into other emu groups, but at the same time Nintendo doesn’t want to risk establishing a potentially detrimental precedent.
LordOcidax
Member
I am pretty sure is going to be down after the Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction… Those guys don’t want to mess with Nintendo.It's open source and on GitHub, the last release was two hours ago lol
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StereoVsn
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The issue is if the judgment goes negative it could be a lot more than just $2.4 mil. Look at what happened to that Bowser guy as an example.
So neither side really wanted to test who is right through the court system.
Topher
Gold Member
Pretty much how we all expected it to go. Nintendo can put any little guy out of business with a flood of legal motions. Kind of sucks since once again we get no case law on any of this. Clearly Nintendo did not want that.
Pretty sure there are ton of forks on github already. It is bully tactic essentially, but good luck stifling open source projects.
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
That's the craziest part. Somehow they didn't even go for the patreon. Seems like ez money honestly
spons
Gold Member
Good luck finding proper engineers a. being able to write an emulator like this and b. taking the risk to do so.