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Post by Ex on Mar 5, 2024 10:02:04 GMT -5
Doesn't matter if the emulator part might possibly be legal I posit that it DOES matter that emulators in and of themselves are legal. From what I've read recently though, the Yuzu team were doing some ancillary shady stuff around their emulator. They were certainly advocating for piracy, even if they didn't force users of their emulator to do so. It's clearly not a great idea to emulate a current gen system, as that will bring the ire of said platform's owner. Yet Yuzu has been around for so long, that it would seem strange Nintendo would wait until the Switch's twilight year to take action. So I'm assuming this legal action has more to do with (attempting to) staving off impending Switch 2 piracy, rather than a last stratagem towards squeezing final Switch 1 profit. Edit: wccftech.com/yuzu-lives-on/
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Post by toei on Mar 5, 2024 10:34:10 GMT -5
It doesn't matter for that particular emulator if its creators are not in a financial position to demonstrate so in court versus a large corporation. That's the context of this statement.
As shady as it might have been, I wonder whether Yuzu ever generated anything close to 2.4 million dollars, or whether it's understood on both sides that this company will just close and file for bankruptcy.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 5, 2024 12:25:26 GMT -5
Probably not that much, but their Patreon was pulling almost 30K a month. But yeah, since it's an LLC, I believe that much of that fine won't be paid, and it will just close up shop.
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Post by Ex on Apr 9, 2024 9:37:49 GMT -5
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