• Wilzax@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Let this be a lesson: if you try to forcibly pry open the gates of DRM hell and let software be free, you best let it be truly free and only money off it from the donations of your supporters. Don’t be like yuzu and monetize the living hell out of your emulator. Don’t stuff it with telemetry, don’t hide releases behind a patreon paywall.

    That all being said, fuck Nintendo.

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      1 year ago

      Bleem was a paid and they won, but this was before the anti circumvention addendum. Yuzu wasn’t sued for being an emulator, but because it used the keys file to decrypt games.

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        1 year ago

        Should have let the decryption be fully external, and not just needing the keys

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      1 year ago

      tbf there was never a paywall. ea = latest yuzu master branch with some work-in-progress-but-almost-ready-for-general-use prs merged in.
      anyone could have taken the repo, merged prs from the list and built it, with no need to pay for anything. It’s free software after all

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        1 year ago

        Yeah you’re right, it was brought to my attention that the lawsuit was about decrypting games, especially Tears of the Kingdom, before they were released. The monetization was just to provide earlier access to precompiled binaries

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        1 year ago

        There was actually someone who did that, the repo was called pineapple-src and it was fairly popular