• iliketoshare@lemmy.ml
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    Since they’re back at it again I have to jump onto my alt and re-share the fact that I totally backed up Yuzu’s source code, their progress reports, their Github issues pages + pull requests, and all the latest available binaries right before it got taken off of Github. No illicit materials in my archive (ROMS/Firmwares/Keys). Freely available as a torrent.

    https://lemmy.ml/post/12810167

    Otherwise I wish the best of luck to the nascent Suyu project.

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        Shit I might add it to my collection of stuff I tagged “Forever :)”
        Right now only the rarbg_db torrent is on it with a ratio of 46x (17gb upload).

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      I don’t seem to be able to add the magnet. Can you check if the link is still valid and if yes, give me a reply?

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        The magnet link is very alive. I haven’t stopped seeding it, but there are clearly other seeds with far better connections than mine in the swarm.

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          Weird. My seedbox was unable to convert it to a torrent.
          I never had issues with me inserting magnet links.

          Anyway I solved it with a magnet to torrent converter.

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    Nintendo brass = scumbags. Trash corpo who hates its customers except for milking their money.

    It is morally good to pirate all Nintendo products, crack all their hardware, and disparage all their advertising.

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    6 months ago

    if you believe this copyright claim was made in error

    It definitely was, since Yuzu doesn’t break copyright…

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      Did they transfer ownership of the code to Nintendo? If so, it might be a violation of Nintendo’s copyright on Yuzu itself.

      To everyone who downvoted this: You are of low relative quality. Friggen jerks! I dress better than you! GET A LIFE! 😡😡😡😡😡

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        In case this is a real question: AFAIK* that is not possible for them to do. The project was open source and it accepted code contributions from everyone using a FOSS license. This means:

        1. Everyone who has seen the code explicitly has rights to redistribute it, and this right cannot be revoked
        2. The core team does not own the entirety of the code - to transfer ownership to Nintendo they would have to get approval from every single contributor that ever made a pull request that got merged. This is impractical to say the least

        So no, there is no and there cannot be legal basis for Nintendo to claim copyright on Yuzu. They might have other claims, but I won’t weigh in on how good they might be because I’m way out of my depth already.

        * I’m actually making a bunch of assumptions about Yuzu’s licence and number of contributors that I haven’t bothered to check, so take this with a grain of salt. I’m still pretty confident about point 1 though, I’d be really surprised if this was a wrong assumption, and it alone is enough.

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          “In case this is a real question?”

          Anyway, I just read through the settlement and I didn’t see any explicit transfer of ownership of he code in there. I’m not a lawyer though, there are some things in there I may not understand the implications of.

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            FWIW I am not one of the jerks who downvoted you, I think your comment contributes to discussion even if I’m the end it turns out to be wrong. I think people just see the downvote button as a “disagree” or “you’re wrong” button, don’t let it get to you.

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              Don’t worry about it, the angry edit was meant to be humorous- in general I agree that it’s a mistake to let downvotes upset you.

              (And because I’m the admin of my own instance, the votes are made visible through the UI. So if I wanted to be a vindictive weirdo about it, I could… 😉)

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          No they can change the license.ots of Foss products doing that lately. It can ways be formed from theast foss version though. But I have no idea whaticense yuzu used.

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    I bet Nintendo wouldn’t think twice to request books be burned if the yuzu source code is printed on them.

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      there is nothing in Yuzu that Nintendo has copyright to. Emulators are also precedentially legal.

      so yes, how dare they want “their” copyrighted material not “stolen”…

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        Isn’t it the decryption keys? and also the fact that they used an unreleased leak of tears of the kingdom to playtest paywalled compatibility?

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          They don’t actually provide decryption keys, the user has to either extract them from their own Switch or find them elsewhere online. However, it could be argued by Nintendo that using an unreleased game ROM for testing proves that the devs themselves were guilty of piracy, and were therefore somehow condoning the use of their emulator for piracy.

          Either way, we won’t know how well Nintendo’s arguments would have held up in court, because the devs settled rather than fight it out.

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        If it’s not illegal then why did yuzu get shut down? Maybe you can represent yuzu against Nintendo, it’d be a slam dunk.

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          ask bleem who actually beat Sony in court but went bankrupt. its not about the legality, its about the wallet.

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          It was a settlement. The devs decided, for reasons that are not public, that it would be easier to just pay Nintendo some money and take down the emulator than to fight them in court. It’s very possible (even likely) that they figured it would be more expensive to fight Nintendo’s lawyers than to just pay a fixed amount up front.

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            That’s quite often the case with thee issues - it’s simply a finance game by the player with the deep pockets - they can afford to effectively bankrupt a smaller player who may have done nothing wrong.