- cross-posted to:
- gaming@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- gaming@beehaw.org
Nintendo is suing the makers of the Switch emulator Yuzu, claims ‘There is no lawful way to use Yuzu’::Nintendo of America is suing the maker of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, saying it “unlawfully circumvents the technological measures” that prevent Switch games from being played on othe
DeCSS wasn’t precedent for this? How was it different?
DeCSS’s creator was sued in California, under the state’s trade secret law for disclosing the CSS key. Nintendo is suing under the DMCA for Yuzu violating the anti-circumvention provisions laid out in 17 U.S.C. §1201.
I follow emulator stuff pretty closely, and I’m not aware of any judgments for or against emulator devs going at it from this angle. I hope I’m wrong, but this could set a very bad precedent if Nintendo is successful.
From the article:
This part of the argument specifically needs to be smacked and shut down by the courts. If I purchase a digital copy of a song from Sony, I don’t want to only be able to listen to it on a Sony Walkman, and only where and when Sony wants.
Hopefully they can find someone with one arm that buys switch games and plays them on PC with a special controller to bolster their case.
Agreed. That is an extremely far reach, and it would have really bad consequences for consumers if not smacked down.