What the fuck? Why? Why did they think it was a loosing? Clean room emulators are legal. Did Yuzu have some code from leaks in it?

@matrix Yuzu apparently wasn't clean room, and patreon was also a large part of the issue. From what I've heard, the devs were openly talking about playing leaked games early, which breaks the whole "no I was totally playing backups of games I legally purchased and dumped myself" thing all of the emulator devs need to pretend to do.

Plus, it's the US. Even if they were 100% innocent and Nintendo had absolutely 0 case whatsoever, Nintendo is a multibillion dollar company, and Yuzu is a small business. Nintendo can afford to drag out a frivolous lawsuit that has 0 chance of going anywhere for decades to bleed them dry, and Yuzu absolutely can not afford to fight that battle in court. It's why so many lawsuits involving these huge corporations are settled out of court - saying "Okay I admit I was wrong" and going bankrupt because you can't afford to pay a few million dollars is a hell of a lot better than battling it for years, going bankrupt, and then declared guilty because you ran out of money, which leads to you getting a fine 100x as large (which you still can't pay), and setting a precedent that emulators are illegal leading to every other emulator that's ever existed getting taken down.

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>patreon was also a large part of the issue

There is nothing illegal about making money off of emulators. There were tons of shareware emulators back in the 90s and early 2000s.

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@xianc78 @galena @matrix it also was clean room. They "stole" code from Ryujinx, allegedly. Patreon was only for new builds, otherwise you could build it yourself for free. I have seen nothing that alludes to them making patches for unreleased games, they have always claimed otherwise. TotK had updates only when it released.

Regardless none of that was what was actually in the suit. It was all about using keys Nintendo claimed were "illegally obtained" and yuzu telling people how to get those keys (ripping them from your own switch).

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