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Full headline, because headline too big: "Switch emulator Yuzu is dead: abruptly settles lawsuit with Nintendo for $2.4 million in an enormous blow to console emulation"
*weary sigh*
So, basically, there goes Nintendon't yet again, trying to close the weak-hinged, broken-latched barn door, when all the horses are already long gone and never coming back, and Nintendon't didn't even realize that the wall of the barn opposite the door has been completely missing for the past half decade. Oh, well, at least they got $2.4 million this time. *eye roll*
This won't kill Switch emulation. It just means whoever takes up the Yuzu source code (because it is already out there and will forever continue to be already out there) will just rename it and be more clandestine about it (like, say, maybe not running a fucking Patreon). Besides, Yuzu isn't even the only Switch emulator that already exists.
Also, as has been proven time and time again, emulation is legal. Now, granted both Bleem and Connetix were essentially bludgeoned into nonexistence anyway via Sony's usage of the legal system as a battering ram, even though they won their cases. So even if the Yuzu guys could have won this, I get why they decided to just settle and be done with it, as it would have cost them more than that to "win" against Nintendon't. It sucks, but as we all know, the legal system favors those with more money, and Nintendon't certainly has more money than the Yuzu guys had.
But then Nintendon't didn't really sue Yuzu over the whole emulation thing, at least not directly. They sued them because Yuzu bypassed the DRM on the Switch. So... who the fuck knows if Yuzu would have actually won if they'd fought back, given the broken state of copyright law these days (not to mention the broken state of the courts in general these days). Another reason why they settled, I guess.
(Disclaimer: I don't really have a horse in this race because I never used Yuzu and don't have any interest in Switch emulation in general. I just think that copyright laws as they exist now are fundamentally broken, especially with regard to computer software, and that I'm sick of giant fucking companies being allowed to swing around the legal system like it's a baseball bat with nails driven through it.)
*weary sigh*
So, basically, there goes Nintendon't yet again, trying to close the weak-hinged, broken-latched barn door, when all the horses are already long gone and never coming back, and Nintendon't didn't even realize that the wall of the barn opposite the door has been completely missing for the past half decade. Oh, well, at least they got $2.4 million this time. *eye roll*
This won't kill Switch emulation. It just means whoever takes up the Yuzu source code (because it is already out there and will forever continue to be already out there) will just rename it and be more clandestine about it (like, say, maybe not running a fucking Patreon). Besides, Yuzu isn't even the only Switch emulator that already exists.
Also, as has been proven time and time again, emulation is legal. Now, granted both Bleem and Connetix were essentially bludgeoned into nonexistence anyway via Sony's usage of the legal system as a battering ram, even though they won their cases. So even if the Yuzu guys could have won this, I get why they decided to just settle and be done with it, as it would have cost them more than that to "win" against Nintendon't. It sucks, but as we all know, the legal system favors those with more money, and Nintendon't certainly has more money than the Yuzu guys had.
But then Nintendon't didn't really sue Yuzu over the whole emulation thing, at least not directly. They sued them because Yuzu bypassed the DRM on the Switch. So... who the fuck knows if Yuzu would have actually won if they'd fought back, given the broken state of copyright law these days (not to mention the broken state of the courts in general these days). Another reason why they settled, I guess.
(Disclaimer: I don't really have a horse in this race because I never used Yuzu and don't have any interest in Switch emulation in general. I just think that copyright laws as they exist now are fundamentally broken, especially with regard to computer software, and that I'm sick of giant fucking companies being allowed to swing around the legal system like it's a baseball bat with nails driven through it.)
