Nintendo is suing the makers of the Switch emulator Yuzu, claims ‘There is no lawful way to use Yuzu’::Nintendo of America is suing the maker of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, saying it “unlawfully circumvents the technological measures” that prevent Switch games from being played on othe
Can’t development just be moved out of the US? Like in my country even downloading copyrighted materials isn’t a crime, only uploading so emulators are like double legal.
Where is that? Asking for a friend.
Estonia
Thanks. FWIW I’m pretty sure that what they are accused of is illegal in all the EU because of the copyright directive.
Most EU countries aren’t following the copyright directive actually. Only Germany, Hungary, Malta and Netherlands are.
Most of South America.
Brazil, for instance, tacitly encourages piracy. Because foreign media is too expensive for locals to be able to regularly afford it, so the entire country’s foreign media consumption is basically fueled by content piracy. It’s sort of an open secret, where everyone just openly downloads or streams pirated content and the government doesn’t give a fuck.
Australia. Not sure if it counts for everything, but AFAIK for movies pirating them is okay as long as you’re not sharing (i.e. uploading, seeding, etc.) and it’s for personal use.
Developers can’t just move… they will always be a target themselves.
It might have helped to have the HQ elsewhere, so to say. Well, too late now.
Do you have any idea how hard and expensive it is just to move out of the US without brining a company with you?
There’s no way they could afford that, even if they found a country that would take them.
Don’t like every single large company have a 1m x 1m basement in Ireland where their HQ is technically located in for tax reasons? Just do the same thing but for copyright.
Got it. Just spend millions of dollars that the developers of a free open source program definitely have just lying around.
Moving into the EU is probably not that hard, but to be extra safe you’d have to gain EU citizenship somehow and renounce your US one.
EU copyright is pretty bad. How would that help them?
Breaking DRM is legal in the EU.
…in very limited circumstances, just like in the US.