Just don't advocate for theft. It's not a controversial topic. Stealing is wrong. Enabling stealing is wrong. Yuzu rightly lost because they crossed over the line.
yuzu will pay $2.4 million in damages to Nintendo to settle their lawsuit
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I'm aware of one legal precedent: the Bleem! emulator who prevailed against a lawsuit from Sony, but was run out of business due to legal fees:
bleem! - Emulation General Wiki
emulation.gametechwiki.com
yuzu settling out of court to avoid the same fate doesn't strengthen your point here.
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they settled because nintendo was never looking to win a lawsuit here, even if anti-emulation dorks don't seem to understand that corporations can bully the little guy using the legal system even if their lawsuit is bullshit
Nintendo killing emulation so they can sell you two gen old games and hardware in the current gen for full price.
that’s what you get when you charge for an emulator and allow people to play an unreleased game before launch day
This is disgusting , fuck Nintendo , good luck erasing it from the internet 
You know you arent suppose to play nintendo game like zelda tears of kingdom, mario wonders etc on pc since nintendo never released those games on pc technicaly what you do is ilegal
How is this legally interpreted? Since an emulator allows one to play pirated software, how would that work? Claiming that players would only play their backed-up games only or something along those lines?
Someone had to have done some research on this.
Not just playing pirated games this yuzu guy also advocating his viewer to follow him to do the same and getting patreon money from it hes taking advantage of the whole situation
I already posted the research, it's Sony's lawsuit against Bleem!. Bleem won.
Emulators are not responsible for the copyright infringement of their users.
US law agrees, this was settled out of court without a judge or jury looking at it.
Emulators are liable if they fail to properly discourage their users from piracy.
Which is a good point to remind everyone that IconEra does not approve of piracy.
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They knew they couldn't win this in court.
Sad that Nintendo won, but after so many people downloaded ToTK on Yuzu it was bound to happen.
Nah, Nintendo never cared about game preservation.
Sad that Nintendo won, but after so many people downloaded ToTK on Yuzu it was bound to happen.
Nah, Nintendo never cared about game preservation.
Ahh, so that's how it works. As long as there's no direct involvement with actual software distribution, it's legal.
One of the biggest reasons I own a PC is to emulate older games we no longer have access to. I don't support emulating new games people have full access to but will always support people preserving older titles. Especially when these companies themselves refuse to port/make them available. Hell, an emulator allows me to play my favorite MP game that got shut down in 2012. With full content.
Please point me to anything substantiating this. It would be totally incoherent. Emulation of game consoles is far from the only or even most popular form of software emulation. Would Apple be liable if a user used Rosetta to play an infringing copy of PC Ratchet and Clank?
Yes, emulation is good and an extremely important contribution to the overall gaming culture.
Even if you "don't support emulating new games", you'd have to support the development of contemporary emulators to be consistent with the rest of your post.
And again, I don't think there's a good argument for gamers to be concerned with copyright infringement at all. Everything in your self interest is for strong legal protection on the side of the emulators, encryption crackers, and even distributors of infringing material. On the other side, against your interests as an individual is the corporate copyright holder.
My simple opinion.
Yuzu is illegal.
You will ask why?
Because it doesn't force the user to own the game he wants to play.
It basically doesn't have any mechanics to validate the user using it has a legal copy of the game.
That makes it illegal.
And more it is incentive indirectly priracy via YT, Twitter, Pateon and more.
How do you do a non illegal emulator?
Simple.
Add any mechanisms to check if the user has a legal copy of the game.
Like reading the own Nintendo game cards and checking their legality.
But Yuzu cared about that? No.
It was malicious using others properties to get money from users.
The last question and most important.
Why Yuzu didn't focus in legal emulations with checks to see if the user has a legal copy of the game?
Because they won't get money with legal emulators.
Yuzu is illegal.
You will ask why?
Because it doesn't force the user to own the game he wants to play.
It basically doesn't have any mechanics to validate the user using it has a legal copy of the game.
That makes it illegal.
And more it is incentive indirectly priracy via YT, Twitter, Pateon and more.
How do you do a non illegal emulator?
Simple.
Add any mechanisms to check if the user has a legal copy of the game.
Like reading the own Nintendo game cards and checking their legality.
But Yuzu cared about that? No.
It was malicious using others properties to get money from users.
The last question and most important.
Why Yuzu didn't focus in legal emulations with checks to see if the user has a legal copy of the game?
Because they won't get money with legal emulators.