InnoFlops Games on LinkedIn: Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (2024)

Highlighting: "Hoeg suspects Yuzu settled because Nintendo at least gave them a cap on their liability. "It’s a lot of money, but it’s a known amount, and I suspect the advice they were getting was that their exposure was high and they had a good chance to lose after paying lawyers for a long time."-----Nintendo just closed down emulator Yuzu (Switch) and also Citra (3DS) all in less than 2 weeks. Yuzu's lawyers advised complete surrender.-----The Verge: "Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit/The emulator was sued for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale.’""According to a joint filing, Tropic Haze has not only agreed to pay $2,400,000 to Nintendo but also says Yuzu is “primarily designed to circumvent and play Nintendo Switch games.” The company agrees to be permanently enjoined from working on Yuzu, hosting Yuzu, distributing Yuzu’s code or features, hosting websites and social media that promote Yuzu, or doing anything else that circumvents Nintendo’s copyright protection.Oh, and it will surrender theyuzu-emu.orgdomain name to Nintendo, agree to delete not only its copies of Yuzu but also “all circumvention tools used for developing or using Yuzu—such as TegraRcmGUI, Hekate, Atmosphère, Lockpick_RCM, NDDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and TegraExplorer,” and hand over any “physical circumvention devices” and “modified Nintendo hardware” to Nintendo. It also agrees to not delete any other “evidence” that infringes Nintendo’s IP rights.Yuzu and Citra developer Bunnei confirmed in the Yuzu discord that both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS emulators are affected. “We write today to inform you that yuzu and yuzu’s support of Citra are being discontinued, effective immediately.”The Verge: https://lnkd.in/gvk_mC8P-----GamesIndustryBiz: "Nintendo and Yuzu developer settle lawsuit for$2.4m. Tropic Haze discontinues support for the emulator and hands over its site to the Mario Maker""Tropic Haze, has agreed to pay the Mario maker $2.4 million in a settlement.In a new joint filing, Tropic Haze will relinquish its domain name to Nintendo of America and delete all of its circumvention tools for the program.The move affects not only Yuzu but also the Nintendo 3S emulator Citra. The developer of both the emulators, Bunnei, announced on Discord that Yuzu and its support of Citra was ending."We started the projects in good faith, out of passion for Nintendo, and were not intending to cause harm," they said."But we see now that because our projects can circumvent Nintendo's technological protection measures and allow users to play games outside of authorized hardware, they have led to extensive piracy."The $2.4 million settlement comes after the emulator developerresponded to Nintendo of Americaafter the firm took legal action against Yuzufor copyright infringement on February 26."GamesIndustryBiz: https://lnkd.in/g3eKrXJC#gameindustry #videogames #gamedev #gamelegal #emulation

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Makers of Switch emulator Yuzu crushed quickly by Nintendo - Tropic Haze, the popular Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator developer, appears to have agreed to settle Nintendo’s lawsuit against it. Less than a week after Nintendo filed the legal action, accusing the emulator’s creators of “piracy at a colossal scale,” a joint final judgment and permanent injunction filed Tuesday says Tropic Haze has agreed to pay the Mario maker $2.4 million, along with a long list of concessions.Nintendo’s lawsuit claimed Tropic Haze violated the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). “Without Yuzu’s decryption of Nintendo’s encryption, unauthorized copies of games could not be played on PCs or Android devices,” the company wrote in its complaint. It described Yuzu as “software primarily designed to circumvent technological measures.”Yuzu launched in 2018 as free, open-source software for Windows, Linux and Android. It could run countless copyrighted Switch games —including console sellers like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, Super Mario Odyssey and Super Mario Wonder. Reddit threads comparing Switch emulators praised Yuzu’s performance compared to rivals like Ryujinx. Yuzu introduces various bugs across different titles, but it can typically handle games at higher resolutions than the Switch, often with better frame rates, so long as your hardware is powerful enough.A screenshot from Yuzu’s website, showing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Tropic Haze / Nintendo)As part of an Exhibit A attached to the proposed joint settlement, Tropic Haze agreed to a series of accommodations. In addition to paying Nintendo $2.4 million, it must permanently refrain from “engaging in activities related to offering, marketing, distributing, or trafficking in Yuzu emulator or any similar software that circumvents Nintendo’s technical protection measures.”Tropic Haze must also delete all circumvention devices, tools and Nintendo cryptographic keys used in the emulator and turn over all circumvention devices and modified Nintendo hardware. It even has to surrender the emulator’s web domain (including any variants or successors) to Nintendo. (The website is still live now, perhaps waiting for the judgment’s final a-okay.) Not abiding by the settlement’s agreements could land Tropic Haze in contempt of court, including punitive, coercive and monetary actions.Although piracy is the top motive for many emulator users, the software can double as crucial tools for video game preservation —making rapid legal surrenders like Tropic Haze’s potentially problematic. Without emulators, Nintendo and other copyright holders could make games obsolete for future generations as older hardware eventually becomes more difficult to find.Nintendo’s legal team is, of course, no stranger to aggressively enforcing copyrighted material. In recent ...

🎮 Breaking News: Nintendo Legal Action Leads to Shutdown of Yuzu and Citra Emulators - A Detailed Analysis!We're excited to share an in-depth analysis titled "Nintendo Legal Action Leads to Shutdown of Yuzu and Citra Emulators" from The Quantified World. 🚨💡 Dive into the implications of Nintendo's recent legal action, resulting in the shutdown of popular emulators Yuzu and Citra. This article offers a comprehensive examination of the legal landscape surrounding emulation technology and the potential impact on the gaming community.🕹️ Explore the history and development of Yuzu and Citra emulators, and the challenges they faced in navigating copyright and intellectual property laws. Gain insights into the legal arguments presented by Nintendo and the implications for future emulator projects.🔍 Join the conversation and share your perspectives on the intersection of copyright law, gaming technology, and consumer rights. Let's explore the complexities of this legal dispute and its broader implications for the gaming industry.📖 Read the full article here: Nintendo Legal Action Leads to Shutdown of Yuzu and Citra Emulators - A Detailed Analysishttps://lnkd.in/dTDDgRhRStay informed and engaged with the latest developments in gaming technology and legal matters! 🎮 #Nintendo #Emulators #LegalAction #GamingTechnology #TheQuantifiedWorld

Discord is Nuking Nintendo Switch Emulator Devs and Their Entire Servers: Discord has shut down the Discord servers for the Nintendo Switch emulators Suyu and Sudachi and has completely disabled their lead developers' accounts. The Verge: Both Suyu and Sudachi began as forks of Yuzu, the emulator that Nintendo sued out of existence on March 4th. "Discord responds to and complies with all legal and valid Digital Millennium Copyright Act requests. In this instance, there was also a court ordered injunction for the takedown of these materials, and we took action in a manner consistent with the court order," reads part of a statement from Discord director of product communications Kellyn Slone to The Verge.The developers of Suyu and Sudachi only received vague messages about how they were sharing content that allegedly violates intellectual property rights, according to images shared with The Verge. Meanwhile, Discord tells us that it's following its normal process for DMCA takedown requests -- but it's not at all clear there was a valid DMCA takedown request or that those communities were actually violating IP rights, and it's quite possible Discord isn't following its own policy by kicking them out.Remember, Nintendo got Yuzu to settle rather than proving its case in court, and the settlement did not give Nintendo the rights to Yuzu's freely copyable GPL v3 code. Developers of Yuzu's forks also claimed they were changing the code further, among other practices, in an effort to avoid pissing Nintendo off. And that code wasn't hosted on Discord in any case.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Discord is Nuking Nintendo Switch Emulator Devs and Their Entire Servers: Discord has shut down the Discord servers for the Nintendo Switch emulators Suyu and Sudachi and has completely disabled their lead developers' accounts. The Verge: Both Suyu and Sudachi began as forks of Yuzu, the emulator that Nintendo sued out of existence on March 4th. "Discord responds to and complies with all legal and valid Digital Millennium Copyright Act requests. In this instance, there was also a court ordered injunction for the takedown of these materials, and we took action in a manner consistent with the court order," reads part of a statement from Discord director of product communications Kellyn Slone to The Verge.The developers of Suyu and Sudachi only received vague messages about how they were sharing content that allegedly violates intellectual property rights, according to images shared with The Verge. Meanwhile, Discord tells us that it's following its normal process for DMCA takedown requests -- but it's not at all clear there was a valid DMCA takedown request or that those communities were actually violating IP rights, and it's quite possible Discord isn't following its own policy by kicking them out.Remember, Nintendo got Yuzu to settle rather than proving its case in court, and the settlement did not give Nintendo the rights to Yuzu's freely copyable GPL v3 code. Developers of Yuzu's forks also claimed they were changing the code further, among other practices, in an effort to avoid pissing Nintendo off. And that code wasn't hosted on Discord in any case.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

This week, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the developers of the Switch emulator, Yuzu. I've shared my thoughts on the lawsuit with Ars Technica at the link below.While this lawsuit isn't a frontal assault on the legality of emulation itself, some of the tools and methods used to make modern console emulators and ROMS accessible may present serious problems under DMCA. The latest techniques for locking down console hardware and software using multiple layers of encryption present DMCA anti-circumvention issues. Nintendo's lawsuit claims that Yuzu can be liable for violating anti-circumvention and 'trafficking' provisions even if it doesn't actually distribute the keys or the software for extraction/decryption because Yuzu provides guidance and instruction and fosters a community that enables the exchange and distribution of these tools and techniques knowing what they're being used for. What do you think?https://lnkd.in/gFyknEyF

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This futuristic bit of kit from the 22nd century allows what early 2000s hackers could only dream...I'm essentially using emulation on the GPU, and then intercepting image data and dumping it to a directory.This allows me to modify the values in the GPU memory rather than modify the copyrighted material. This is also done via emulation on an official Sony PS2 BIOS so I have also not circumvented any copyright law.With that, and some patches, you could easily mod your PS2 games regardless of the format, or proprietary archive constraints of the era.

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Nintendo reportedly issues DMCA takedown for Switch homebrew projects, Skyline Switch emulator development ceased | GBAtemp.net - The Independent Video Game Community: Nintendo has taken action to prevent players from loading The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom into emulators and playing them unofficially on their computers prior to the launch date. Homebrew tool Lockpick was reportedly targeted, with Nintendo issuing a DMCA takedown to the GitHub project page. The Skyline Emulator, a Switch emulator for Android devices, also shut down development after it became apparent that it required keys from Lockpick. Other homebrew projects are also thought to have received DMCA notices. Ryujinx's emulator team stated that it will not be shutting down. - Artificial Intelligence topics! #ai #artificialintelligence #intelligenzaartificiale

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