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Can apple even legally do this lol
Emulators aren't illegal. So why shouldn't they allow it?
If so then how did Nintendo manage to take down yuzu?
They didn't. Nintendo and Yuzu came to an agreement and settled out of court.
They settled because they used an illegal key instead of making their own, which is the only legal way to do this for game preservation.
Incorrect. You had to rip that key for yourself. They never distributed it.
They settled because there's no winning for them. Even if they're correct (and they really are) it will be years of litigation... and costs.
They were forced to settle because they publicly talked about playing shit [pre-release] on discord too...
Edit: Found a typo. My bad.
The key they used to make the base engine was ripped from online, not made by them that’s the nails in the coffin right there. They also provided means to publicly available bios keys. They did distribute it, you just had to dig into discord or other means to find it, but it was there.
So they were forced to settle because they did this thing illegally, yet you say they didn’t…? What…?
Proof please. Since it never went to court, nothing like this would have been "found" through the process of discovery. I suspect you're just making shit up.
Nope, you had to rip your own to use the software.
Users chatting on discord != yuzu doing it.
Nothing about Yuzu itself as a program was illegal. Period. How some of the developers talked in their Discord shows that they were using it for illegal things, which fucked them. Not the application itself.
https://twitter.com/Zetta_330/status/1765081419687371165
Look for yourself, they used someone else’s code, it’s technically not illegal according to the CLA of GitHub , but that’s not relevant to DCMA. It requires them to reverse engineer the code for an emulator, which they didn’t do.
The dev provided the means in discord themselves, they also had a google drive with a ripped key, they also had files on discord of roms to test their gamesc which were acquired illegally.
Please tell me what they did right to claim game preservation…?
The fact that it didn’t go to discovery when other cases have is damning in itself, and you want it in your court? Okay….
It has nothing to do with some made up CLA that GitHub doesn't even have ರ_ರ , it's a matter of the license the project is under. Which is open source, e.g. GPL, Apache, MIT, etc. all of which doesn't prevent the use of the code in other open source projects, especially when consent was already given before hand.
You bet your ass it isn't, because the code from Ryujinx doesn't infringe on Nintendo copyright either.
It's DMCA.
How the shit do you think emulators are created without reverse engineering? You can't be serious.
They used clean room reverse engineering which is a form of independent creation and already has decades of precedent in its favor.