Law Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu - Emulator tools aren't inherently illegal, but the way in which Yuzu is being actively used and promoted is what Nintendo appears to be objecting to here.

New documents filed Monday, February 26 reveal that videogame giant Nintendo is taking action against the creators of the popular emulator tool Yuzu.

The copyright infringement filing, from Nintendo of America, states that the Yuzu tool (from developer Tropic Haze LLC) illegally circumvents the software encryption and copyright protection systems of Nintendo Switch titles, and thus facilitates piracy and infringes copyright under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Nintendo alleges that Tropic Haze's free Yuzu emulator tool unlawfully allows pirated Switch games to be played on PCs and other devices, bypassing Nintendo's protection measures.

The official Yuzu website suggests that the tool is to be used with software you yourself own: "You are legally required to dump your games from your Nintendo Switch" — but it's common knowledge, that this is not how these tools are primarily used.

The legal document claims that over a million copies of last year's The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom were downloaded prior to the game's official retail release.

Additionally, Nintendo's filing points to the success of Yuzu's Patreon page, highlighting how the project is actively supported by over 7,000 members. At time of writing, the Yuzu Patreon currently brings in close to $30,000 USD per month. Nintendo's filing alludes that this Patreon page has been actively engaged in promoting the emulator, and thus by extension piracy.

Emulator tools aren't inherently illegal, but the way in which Yuzu is being actively used and promoted is what Nintendo appears to be objecting to here.

As a result, Nintendo is now seeking a trial by jury, damages, and is demanding that the Yuzu emulator is shut down.

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[Friendly Primarina]

People really earning those $0.50 checks in this thread.

 

[DumbDude43]

In the US patents only last 20 years. Even the Nintendo Wii has expired patents at this point.

that's crazy, i thought they last like a hundred years, similar to those mickey mouse IP rights that just expired recently despite dating back to the 1920s

 

[linchan]

that's crazy, i thought they last like a hundred years, similar to those mickey mouse IP rights that just expired recently despite dating back to the 1920s

That's because copyright laws have been jewed to shit. People understand that no one should have exclusive right to very useful innovations including life saving ones, on the other hand people don't think IP's are important to society enough that it should be public domain in a few short years. Which is why IP's have become so valuable through these laws.

 

[X Prime]

Yuzu can win if it's a US case but if they're Europeans like all warezbros they cannot win.

You can have a manifestly winnable case as an emulator author who did nothing wrong but have to settle simply because you do not have the money to fight it.

It's slightly less of a problem in Yuzu's case but still a problem. And that's assuming they did nothing wrong.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I love seeing NIntendo act like the corporate scumbags that they are.
People who defend Nintendo as 'the good guys' are pedos or retarded or both.

The pirating will continue until the game quality improves.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

First of all there's complicated licensing issues, but it's ultimately Nintendo's decison whether or not what services they offer.

If it's not for sale at any price, I don't see how free is cheating Nintendo or any creator out of a dime.

 

[Tanner Glass]

I'm pretty Anti-Nintendo but I'm not sure why the Yuzu folks thought having a gigantic patreon wasn't going to shine a spotlight on them.

 

[Fried-Rice12]

Looks like the Nintendo and Capcom execs had a golf meet last week.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

It is. At the least they are missing out on one sale.

Do you think a hood rat who runs in to a jewelry store, smashes the display case with a hammer, and scoops half a million dollars in jewelry into a garbage bag before running off was ever going to buy all that jewelry if you gave him a milliontybillion years?

No, of course not.

Now piracy is kind of like that, except nobody loses anything. Because as much as Fagtendo and the MPAA and such would like to make you think piracy is theft, piracy isn't theft. There's no property damage, nobody is deprived of anything, the product still exists to sell.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

only nintendo manchildren have any problem with piracy and should be ridiculed

 

[Grub]

The only people who pirate are either poor, not currently interested enough in your product to pull the trigger on spending money on it, or are avoiding paying your company for personal reasons

Pretty much this. I've been playing switch games on yuzu for the last little while. I have no intention of ever buying a switch. If yuzu didn't exist I just wouldn't play those games. I would never have given nintendo money either way.

 

[Safir]

Just admit you're pirating just because, spare me the property is theft rant.

Digital copies are not property or even "intellectual property".

stealing is literally nigger behavior

Piracy is not stealing, though.

• Hiring workers to do a job, then not paying them, is stealing.
• Breaking into a company server, downloading unpublished files, and distributing them on the online is stealing.
• Pretending to be the original author of the work is stealing.
• Reusing a living author's characters can be argued to be stealing (companies are not people, though). I think "life or 20 years, whichever is greater" is an ok copyright term under capitalism
  • (although of course copyright shouldn't exist, the gubmint should have some artists on a payroll making "free" content and everyone else should have no legal protection either).

Making near-identical copies of an existing work is not stealing.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Breaking into a company server, downloading unpublished files, and distributing them on the online is stealing.

Even that's debatable. It's certainly unauthorized use of a computer service, possibly industrial espionage or something, but stealing? I'm not sure.

 

[Otoya Yamaguchi]

The day the government stops forcing me, at gunpoint, to bailout bankers using my tax money
is the day I will respect other government schemes like copyright

You consent to taxes and bailouts.

Anyway, this is what caused the tokyo-troon to go low-profile and not some forgotten thread about him that only spanned a handful of pages.

What?

Piracy is not stealing, though.

and niggers raiding a CVS isnt stealing either, right?

 

[George Lucas]

The GBATemp thread hasn’t had updates since 2022. Where is the primary discussion of this emulator?

It seems Ryujinx is actually better than Yuzu. I don’t see them having a retarded Patreon either. Is Yuzu the retard emulator? (i.e. like snes9x vs zsnes back in the day).

 

[linchan]

and niggers raiding a CVS isnt stealing either, right?

If niggers stole like how people pirate then that CVS would be left untouched, there just happens to be a second nearly identical copy of the stock from the original CVS that they can take from.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

If niggers stole like how people pirate then that CVS would be left untouched, there just happens to be a second nearly identical copy of the stock from the original CVS that they can take from.

It's not even like that, because that sill implies you're actually taking something.

It would be like if you could walk in a CVS, look at something you like, and an identical copy appears in your car.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

If you took care if your controlers and actually cleaned them frequently that wouldn’t happen. Nintendo know the average person is a retard and after realising telling them to take care of the stuff did not work just dediced to take the hit on that.

I take care of mine and they still drifted after two months of use. My PS2 and PS3 controllers do not have this problem and I took worse care of those. If a controller needs treated like a newborn baby, it's a shitty controller.

 

[Wendell X]

If you took care if your controlers and actually cleaned them frequently that wouldn’t happen. Nintendo know the average person is a retard and after realising telling them to take care of the stuff did not work just dediced to take the hit on that.

Shiggy ain't gonna fuck you bro

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Shiggy ain't gonna fuck you bro

I’ve just tend to found most people suffering drift is because they take absolute garbage care of their controllers is all.