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."

  • Essence_of_Meh@kayb.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    28
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    8 months ago

    As much as I dislike Nintendo and wish Yuzu devs all the best I’d like to point out that Bowser wasn’t some innocent guy who was caught by big bad company - Moonie has a video that goes into specifics about his involvement with a pirate enterprise worth a shitton of money.

    Other than that yeah, I hope they can survive this situation. I wonder if Ryujinx devs are next.

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      8 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
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        8 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.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          8 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
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            8 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.

    • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      8 months ago

      He’s not innocent and went to jail for it, but does it warrant garnishing his income for life? I think they went too far with that.

      • Essence_of_Meh@kayb.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        8 months ago

        Oh no, I completely agree no one should be completely screwed over piracy. Just wanted to add some context as I saw a lot of discussion about him ending with “poor innocent dude” without digging into details. That’s all.

        Nintendo has a lot of problems that should absolutely be called out. I hope me trying to add more details didn’t imply otherwise.

    • yamanii@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      8 months ago

      They are taking his income for life, that’s an insane overreach specially for a big successful company like Nintendo, and it didn’t matter since the actual team behind it is back selling flashcarts that are even better than having to solder a chip.

      • Essence_of_Meh@kayb.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        8 months ago

        Yes, it is insane. That case is also a great showcase of how trying to make example out of a single guy doesn’t really work since, as you mentioned, rest of the team is still doing their thing.

        I’d like to think (well, hope anyway) that no one looks at Bowser’s story and thinks “yeah, that’s a reasonable conclusion”.