Yuzu and Citta just got destroyed,will Palworld be safe from future Nintendo lawsuit?

[Bigboss PC Faster]

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[Khergit Horse Archer]

diff things bro, palworld isnt even an emulator ffs at least make it sound relevant

[rick.vanopdorp]

Those are emulators designed to play often illegally obtained Nintendo games on a PC. Ofcourse Nintendo would bring those down one day as that is illegal use of their own software,

However that has nothing to do with a game that's made without any of their software. In the case of Palworld the question is wether Palworld breaks copywrite rules which I believe it does not. It's certainly close to the line, but not over it.

[Samus Knight]

Given that Palworld has been out for well over a month now, and even longer in development before that, if Nintendo had a case against them it would have already happened. Even if they weren't certain if they'd win at the very least they would have filed some kind of DCMA or similar to prevent PocketPair from making money off of sales.

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Anyone can be sued for anything, nothing new to see here.

Just another case of why you should never settle.
At the end of the day you only lose if you give into the corporate threats and legal coercion.

[Jaasrg]

Apples and oranges?
Or would it be apples and lemons?

[rick.vanopdorp]

Origineel geplaatst door The Seraph of Tomorrow:

Anyone can be sued for anything, nothing new to see here.

Just another case of why you should never settle.
At the end of the day you only lose if you give into the corporate threats and legal coercion.

It's a little different in the case of Yuzu and Citra. Those are emulators and that's simply illegal. So in that case settling is the better option, since they'd almost certainly lose in court. They could try to argue they have no control over what users do with their program, but the intended use is pretty clear I'm afraid.

[Jaasrg]

With this as precedent, all other emulators in danger as well?
Since they have been in that legal gray area where they don't technically provide any full package, you still need to get the core files yourself.

[Bisexual Offender]

Origineel geplaatst door rick.vanopdorp:

Origineel geplaatst door The Seraph of Tomorrow:

Anyone can be sued for anything, nothing new to see here.

Just another case of why you should never settle.
At the end of the day you only lose if you give into the corporate threats and legal coercion.

It's a little different in the case of Yuzu and Citra. Those are emulators and that's simply illegal. So in that case settling is the better option, since they'd almost certainly lose in court. They could try to argue they have no control over what users do with their program, but the intended use is pretty clear I'm afraid.

Calling emmulator illigal because people can you use it to pirate games is the same as calling the crowbar illegal because people can use it to break into houses.
Emulators are a tool and Yuzu had instructions on how to use it legally by dumping your own switch and rom.
The fact that Ruyjinx hasn`t been hit makes me think that the main reason for Yuzu hit was patreon.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

Origineel geplaatst door Jaasrg:

With this as precedent, all other emulators in danger as well?
Since they have been in that legal gray area where they don't technically provide any full package, you still need to get the core files yourself.

idk about the lawsuit but there are several things yuzu has done which may put it over the edge of what seems to be a grayzone.

1) yuzu garners a large amount of patreon users
2) yuzu has paid versions of their emulator which are bleeding edge versions, which often allow users to play newly released titles on day 1 or even before release.

[rick.vanopdorp]

Origineel geplaatst door Jaasrg:

With this as precedent, all other emulators in danger as well?
Since they have been in that legal gray area where they don't technically provide any full package, you still need to get the core files yourself.

They always were since they operate in a grey area. Though it depends heavily on the type of emulator. Nintendo seems to be way more strict than any other company.

[rick.vanopdorp]

Origineel geplaatst door Bezyn:

Origineel geplaatst door rick.vanopdorp:

It's a little different in the case of Yuzu and Citra. Those are emulators and that's simply illegal. So in that case settling is the better option, since they'd almost certainly lose in court. They could try to argue they have no control over what users do with their program, but the intended use is pretty clear I'm afraid.

Calling emmulator illigal because people can you use it to pirate games is the same as calling the crowbar illegal because people can use it to break into houses.
Emulators are a tool and Yuzu had instructions on how to use it legally by dumping your own switch and rom.
The fact that Ruyjinx hasn`t been hit makes me think that the main reason for Yuzu hit was patreon.

That's the grey area you are talking about. That can work as long as the creator does not provide access to actual games, although there is the matter of the intended use which is hard to defend in court. (That's how they got Bowser in court for example, though that involved a hacking program.) In this case it was even easier for Nintendo since the creator of Yuzu provided access to actual games through his patreon.

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[Kaluth]

ffs, they've already said they don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about Palword and to stop telling them about it.

[★REM★]

As i already said in two different posts Palworld developers made small changes that altered the Pals enough to avoid intelligence property issues.

As i told in other two posts:

Game mechanics are generally not protected by copyright, as they are elements considered ideas and functions, that are not subject to legal protections.

Designs and apperances, those are covered by copyright, Specific changes can make it so that it's not considered stolen assets.

TLTR;

Nintendo is known for swift harsh actions againts property intelligenge issues and if they did not hit palworld yet means they have little or no ground at all to do so.

[Le fishe au chocolat]

Dude do you even know why Yuzu got swept away?