Nintendo Clamping Down Against Switch Emulation by Suing Yuzu.
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People are hypothesizing that the reason they’re doing this is because the upcoming Switch 2 is more akin to the jump from the GameCube to the Wii instead of the Wii to the Wii U or the Wii U to the Awitch, where Dolphin works with both the GameCube and the Wii, while the Wii and Wii U have different enough architectures to where there was a separate Wii U emulator.
What the lawsuit claims is that Yuzu enables piracy by existing, but they don’t have ground to stand on. In order to actually play games on Yuzu, you need to either dump your own Switch’s encryption keys, or find them somewhere, neither of which is legally Yuzu’s concern, and then do the same thing with the ROM and optional DLCs for the game you’d like to play as well.
Nintendo has lost multiple times in court over emulation, this is a scare tactic because Nintendo has money and the Yuzu devs don’t.
Apparently they also had some stuff behind a paywall. That's easily the quickest way to get blown up.
This was argued at SCOTUS 40 years ago in Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. The ruling was that VCRs do not constitute copyright infringement simply because someone could play infringing content on them.
Since the emulator allows you to play backup copies of games you legally purchased, the fact that it could also be used for illegally copied games is irrelevant.
There ought to be extremely heavy fines levied on the petitioner in cases of vexatious litigation like this.