- Pronouns
- he/him
Staff Communication
Hey folks, since previous threads about this topic quickly turned inflammatory and unproductive we have decided to reboot the discussion on the Nintendo v. Yuzu lawsuit. However, to ensure both the legal safety of the site and the well-being of our users, we will set a few ground rules that will be strictly enforced. Users who do not adhere to these rules will receive a thread ban. In more severe cases we will hand out site bans.
- Admission and advocacy of piracy of currently available games will not be tolerated. Linking to pirated content in any form is also not allowed. Please refer to the site rules as well as this recent staff post.
- Avoid discussions about the morality of piracy as they quickly veer into advocacy of piracy which is in conflict with our site rules. This includes making moralistic judgments about people who engage in piracy as they often devolve into classist rhetoric.
- Do not equate piracy with emulation. While we acknowledge that both are inextricably tied to each other, we would like for people to avoid generalizations and unfounded accusations.
- Be respectful of each other and do not resort to personal attacks.
Switch emulator Yuzu shuts down as creator agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4m
Tropical Haze, the developer of open-source Switch emulator Yuzu, has agreed to pay $2.4m in damages to Nintendo and ce…
www.eurogamer.net
Tropical Haze, the developer of open-source Switch emulator Yuzu, has agreed to pay $2.4m in damages to Nintendo and cease all operations in response to the Mario maker's recent lawsuit.
[...]
"Defendant [Tropic Haze] is thus secondarily liable for the infringement committed by the users to whom it distributes Yuzu", Nintendo's lawyers argued, with the lawsuit ultimately seeking damages and demanding the emulator be shut down.
[...]
Additionally, Tropic Haze faces a permanent injunction preventing it from "offering to the public, providing, marketing, advertising, promoting, selling, testing, hosting, cloning, distributing, or otherwise trafficking in Yuzu or any source code or features of Yuzu", as well as "other software or devices that circumvent Nintendo's technical protection measures". This means the Yuzu team's 3DS emulator Citra will also be withdrawn.