@ernie@tedium important to note that this wasn’t about emulation though. Well, it was but not in a legal sense. It was about distributing private keys and publishing how to circumvent DRM to extract your own. Yuzu knowing and repeatedly threw a middle finger up at the DMCA (which in spirit I can get behind).
Emulation is absolutely safe. Thats tired and tested from a legal standpoint.
Yuzu were arrogant and got burnt. That’s all this is.
@wiredfire@tedium I will point out more broadly that the language in the legal complaint seems to have a dour opinion of emulation in general, so I think it honestly goes beyond Yuzu honestly.
Nonetheless I added some language to emphasize this.
@ernie@tedium on Nintendo would definitely love to get rid of emulators on the whole, it’s just being an emulator isn’t what got Yuzu sued. Really has put the frighteners up some other emu devs though, especially those that charge. There’s a DS emu for Android that very suddenly went free after this ruling.
But emulators will absolutely survive and thrive and continue to be an essential part of cultural preservation!
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