ardi60@reddthat.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 years agoNintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square96linkfedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down11 cross-posted to: emulation@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1169arrow-down1external-linkNintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’www.theverge.comardi60@reddthat.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square96linkfedilink cross-posted to: emulation@lemmy.ml
minus-squareNuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThe precedent that almost everyone cites (because it is some of the only) is Sony vs Bleem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!#Sony_lawsuit Initial release was in 1999 and lawsuits were around the same time. PS2 launched in 2000. So while the bleem marketing was a complete mess, the emulator existing while a console was still “alive” does not matter in the slightest.
The precedent that almost everyone cites (because it is some of the only) is Sony vs Bleem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!#Sony_lawsuit
Initial release was in 1999 and lawsuits were around the same time. PS2 launched in 2000. So while the bleem marketing was a complete mess, the emulator existing while a console was still “alive” does not matter in the slightest.