>leak totk early
>watch yuzu's patreon revenue triple
>let them collect telemetry data on pirates
>sue and take all their stuff
The next step is to make an example out of a few individual pirates who were stupid enough to enable telemetry or "donate" to Yuzu's Patreon.
There's no way they intentionally leaked TotK early. They could've done near the same thing with a comparable release, like Pikmin.
Literally what the actual frick are you talking about my dude? There's like a massive gap of information and actions that need to (but don't) exist between leak and collect telemetry.
Do you have no education on how computers work, or are you some kind of mud race that's genetically incapable of understanding?
Every time you open Yuzu from now on it will be pinging Nintendo's servers.
The source code was already public. That wasn't the valuable data Nintendo got access to.
>Every time you open Yuzu from now on
That's not how it works... that's not how any of this works...
api.yuzu-emu.org and profile.yuzu-emu.org are owned by Nintendo now.
The data being sent isn't as important as the fact that you're sending a request from your IP which will be saved indefinitely.
yuzu is open source, you can literally look at the code and see where it is sending any data if you wanted.
>Every time you open Yuzu from now on it will be pinging Nintendo's servers.
Even if that were remotely true what is Nintendo gonna do?
Sue some random ass nobody?
The only people they care about are those distributing switch emulators and roms.
Used to happen all the time, you're too young to remember Napster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_group_efforts_against_file_sharing#Lawsuits_against_individuals
Yuzu has (had) telemetry. They weren't trying to hide it. The website used to have a section on this too.
https://github.com/pineappleEA/pineapple-src/tree/main/src/web_service
Nintendo owns those URLs and the data now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240304195221/https://yuzu-emu.org/help/feature/telemetry
>The telemetry framework will collect information such as
>Information about the version of yuzu you are using
>Performance data for the games you play
>Your yuzu configuration settings
>Information about your computer hardware (e.g. GPU, CPU, and OS type)
>Emulation errors and crash information
>You may have also noticed the field titled “Telemetry ID” in the screenshots, this is an identifier generated randomly on install
This is more than enough information to individually track any user Nintendo is interested in, such as those in favorable jurisdictions like Japan and the US. Note that they make no mention of how long the data is saved.
Its pretty clear that they settled by giving Nintendo access to their source code and other shit so they would only have to pay $2.4 million from $100 million
Bad PR for Nintendo, people are gonna move to Palworld now.
>pirates say they pirate games because it's free
>have to donate to the software devs patreon in order to play the latest pirated games
It's fricking stupid, anyone who charges for piracy is a scumbag who should be taken down.
>too moronic to get yuzu for free
>try to take the moral "well I'm supporting """preservation""" of a current gen console" highground
>all their money is now in Nintendo's pockets anyway
kek
it's almost as if there are reasons for emulation beyond getting free shit, like running games at quintuple the framerate and resolution of native hardware
>The next step is to make an example out of a few individual pirates who were stupid enough to enable telemetry or "donate" to Yuzu's Patreon
I don't think that's their goal at all. Nintendo wants to kill emulators, especially the emulators that actively pirates and steals because it hurts their profits.
ryujinx is better anyway
>only if you have the money to back yourself up in case you get sued.
>let them collect telemetry data on pirates
How?
It's open-source.
>It's open-source.
And?
People can look at and verify the code doesn't do shady shit.
>People can
A common misconception, Just because they can doesn't mean they do. Moreover, even if you find and report something shady, you will just get told to frick off and get ignored.
The point is by default, open-source shit doesn't have telemetry because that shit can get found out very easily.
If you think it does, then prove it.
The burden of proof lies with you. Now go and review the entire codebase and come back saying there's not a single speck of telemetry.
>THIS THING HAS TELEMETRY
>no it doesnt moron
>YES IT DOES
>prove it
>NOT THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON YOU
frick off moron
>even if you find and report something shady, you will just get told to frick off and get ignored.
Meanwhile outside of fantasyland people fork that shit with the telemetry or closed-source stuff removed. See: Rocky v. RedHat, Tenacity v. Audacity.
Happens all the time.
it’s going to be so fricking funny when the switch 2 has yuzu source code to emulate switch 1 games