Nintendo says Yuzu played a large role in encouraging piracy of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

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

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Shouldn’t it be unnecessary to spend on defense if there have been dozens of similar cases with the same result?

    I mean not existing laws, just possible optimization against such kind of abuse.

    • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Missing knowledge is probably the problem. Either from small sellers that don’t know that they’ll win, or from lawyers that don’t offer to work pro bono for the same reason.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      There have been cases where small sellers lost even though the really really shouldn‘t have by any means. But show a german judge in their 50s a gundam and a transformer and they‘ll say they look identical and it‘s plagiarism. LEGO being a huge name tends to win the most ridiculous cases here sadly.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        OK, if in theory IP can be defended (I wouldn’t agree still), in practice it just should be abolished (except for falsifying authorship being illegal).