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Nintendo DMCA Notice Wipes Out 8,535 Yuzu Repos, Mig Switch Also Targeted. (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 4 months ago by LemmyQuest@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/3/24147936/nintendo-dmca-takedown-yuzu-emulator-copies

It's true. They used Nintendo's own cryptographic keys to make the yuzu switch emulation work.

[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's not "proprietary code", those are keys. And they actually didn't include keys, Yuzu did require you to supply a key, however a lot of them were then derived from the key supplied.

And there is no other way to do emulation and a whole host of other things if you can't use their keys. Make no mistake, Nintendo wishes it could make using the keys at all illegal.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

Here's the thing. The creators of Yuzu folded which is a win as far as Nintendo is concerned and a loss for everyone else who uses the yuzu emulators. Your semantics about the situation aren't helping. All I did was supply a link to a news story that was already available on Lemmy on literally the technology community. This has already been hashed out.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's not code and Texas Instruments already lost on that one

[–] rbar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

The distribution of DRM encryption keys is very storied.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And Nintendo won.

[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

They didn't win, they did an out-of-court settlement.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Something something legal precedence. This hasn't gone through court yet, has it?

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And if Nintendo has its way (which they did this go round) they won't have to. They got what they wanted and they're not having to spend ridiculous amounts of money (that there's basically no way to re-coup) on litigation. They sued a guy who can never pay them back what the court says he owes them. I doubt they want to go through that again. Easier to just for arbitrate the proceedings.