Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued
Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued
Dev says project is "in a legal gray area we are trying to work our way out of..."
Dev says project is "in a legal gray area we are trying to work our way out of..."
There name is "sue you". When nintendo sues them they'll sue back.
Their intentions are clear
Or just host it somewhere where they haven't entered the market. Like for example, India. They can't do shit here.
Don you have to live there? Like ok the website would stay up but they could still sue you ,unless you live there.
Yeah right. The name literally reads "sue you". So funny.
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Germany isn't any better though, in fact, Germany has even more restrictive and absurd copyright law than the US.
Here:
The manufacture, import, distribution, sale, rental, advertising with a view to sale or rental and the possession for commercial purposes of devices, products or components as well as the provision of services which:
- are the subject of promotion, advertising or marketing with the aim of circumventing effective technological measures, or
- have only a limited economic purpose or benefit other than the circumvention of effective technological measures, or
- are primarily designed, manufactured, adapted or provided for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of effective technological measures. \
is prohibited.
And I'm certain that Nintendo will choose the correct court to argue any modern emulator is violating this to sue in. After all, one court in particular is notorious for ignoring all reason when it comes to copyright. For instance, it ruled that you are violating copyright for publishing photos of your home if your walls have a photo wallpaper. After all, making and posting an image of the copyrighted design of the wallpaper on your website, even if the wallpaper is just in the background, constitutes an illegal copy.
The commercial use (e.g. sale, rental) is prohibited according to your cited text.
The manufacture, import, distribution, sale, rental, advertising with a view to sale or rental and the possession for commercial purposes of devices, products or components as well as the provision of services which: [...]
And while the LG Köln (Cologne) sided with the copyright owner of the wallpaper, other LGs and the OLG Düsseldorf - a higher court - said otherwise:
Abbildung einer Fototapete im Netz ist keine Urheberrechtsverletzung (2024-02-29, in German)
But the copyright owner is appealing that decision and the BGH - the highest court - has to decide.
Urheberrecht: Foto von Fototapete landet beim Bundesgerichtshof (2024-03-07, in German)
And this is just absurd:
The case I ZR 140/23 is really meta: A woman posted a screenshot of a website of a tennis center online; the documented website also contains a photograph of the guest room of the tennis center, whose wall is (in)decorated with a photo wallpaper on which a picture motif is reproduced to which the photographer claims rights via his company registered in Canada.
what you have quoted is mandated by the WIPO treaty and is perfectly normal to have in your copyright laws, USA has similar laws too
Only one way to find out. Hopefully we don't find out.
How about several decades worth of emulators that Nintendo hasn't touched? As the article points out, Yuzu both profited off their emulator and had step by step guides on how to pirate games. Emulators are legal, piracy is not. Nintendo suing Yuzu was not surprising or a change in precedent. Other emulators are not concerned by this because they play by the rules, and I don't see why we should be worried about decades of precedence changing when yuzu was sued on grounds that every other emulator maker already knew were red lines.
When you provide an emulator you simply have to say "we do not condone piracy, this emulator is for hobbyist use only". Then let one of the hundreds of community resources provide the actual piracy instructions where Nintendo has to play whack a mole instead.
Only one way to find out. Hopefully we don’t find out.
With the CLA still in place they're daring Nintendo to sue.
Is this a fork of yuzu?
Yes it is