Tropic Haze stoppt den Switch-Emulator und zahlt 2,4 Millionen an Nintendo: Der Rechtsstreit um Yuzu ist damit beendet.



Nach dem Einreichen der Klage Ende Februar 2024 hat es nach einem langen und teuren Gerichtsverfahren ausgesehen, doch nun haben Nintendo und eine Gruppe namens Tropic Haze ihren Rechtsstreit um den Switch-Emulator nach wenigen Tagen beigelegt - mit einem Sieg für Nintendo. Tropic Haze nimmt Yuzu so weit wie möglich aus dem Netz, übergibt alle Domains und zahlt rund 2,4 Millionen US-Dollar an den japanischen Konzern.

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Hello yuz-ers and Citra fans:

We write today to inform you that yuzu and yuzuÂ’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 NintendoÂ’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 creatorsÂ’ works.

Thank you for your years of support and for understanding our decision.