Nintendo heeft een rechtszaak gewonnen tegen Nintendo Switch-emulator maker Yuzu. De Japanse gigant eiste dat de emulators Yuzu (Nintendo Switch) en Citra (Nintendo 3DS) offline werden gehaald, omdat het piraterij mogelijk maakte.
Volgens Nintendo, werd de game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, meer dan 1 miljoen keer gedownload en gespeeld via de Yuzu-emulator. Nintendo heeft nu de rechtszaak gewonnen. Yuzu moet een bedrag van 2.4 miljoen dollar betalen aan Nintendo ter vergoeding van de schade. Verder wordt het domein yuzu-emu.org overgedragen aan Nintendo. Ook het domein Citra-emu.org is per direct offline gehaald. Yuzu draagt ook alle kopieën en tools van de emulators over aan Nintendo.
Statement Yuzu over het stoppen van ondersteuning voor de emulators Yuzu en Citra
“Hello yuz-ers and Citra fans: We write today to inform you that yuzu and yuzu’s support of Citra are being discontinued, effective immediately.
yuzu and its team have always been against piracy. We started the projects in good faith, out of passion for Nintendo and its consoles and games, and were not intending to cause harm. But we see now that because our projects can circumvent Nintendo’s technological protection measures and allow users to play games outside of authorized hardware, they have led to extensive piracy. In particular, we have been deeply disappointed when users have used our software to leak game content prior to its release and ruin the experience for legitimate purchasers and fans.
We have come to the decision that we cannot continue to allow this to occur. Piracy was never our intention, and we believe that piracy of video games and on video game consoles should end. Effective today, we will be pulling our code repositories offline, discontinuing our Patreon accounts and Discord servers, and, soon, shutting down our websites. We hope our actions will be a small step toward ending piracy of all creators’ works.
Thank you for your years of support and for understanding our decision.”
