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they didnāt reverse engineer the key they used
Stop peddling that stupid lie already. They didn't use any key period; we literally have backups of the entire GPL source code will all of the commit history dating all the way back to August 30, 2013, stop spewing bullshit out your mouth.
You had to rip your own key from your own legally purchased switch hardware using legally protected homebrew tools and manually add it to Yuzu configs.This process is protected under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act.Under the fair use doctrine in Section 107, modifying your own legally purchased console hardware and running homebrew software for personal, non-commercial use has been considered a lawful fair use in certain legal precedents, even if it requires circumventing the console's technological protection measures (TPMs) as its considered non-profit, educational or transformative use, as described in the fair use doctrine of Section 107.
Section 107 of the Copyright Act establishes the fair use exception, which allows for the reproduction of copyrighted works for purposes such as "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research".
Clean Room design reverse engineering for the purpose of creating an Emulator falls under "research" as listed by section 107 and independent creation as protected by existing judicial precedents.
Section 107 is intended to restate the present judicial doctrine of fair use, not to change, narrow, or enlarge it in any way.
Meaning Clean Room design reverse engineering as independent creation & modifying your legally purchased hardware with homebrew tools as fair use being protected by existing judicial precedents is also in turn protected by Section 107.
And the Twitter thread had the sources
Twitter doesn't allow us to reverse the thread, kindly link the exact source you're referring to.
How can you make and test an emulator without a keyā¦? Or romsā¦?
They didnāt reverse engineer the key, thatās the issue they had their publicly ripped key in a Google folder.
Soā¦ how did they legally test their reverse engineered emulatorā¦ without their own key or roms?
Thereās far more to this story than what yuzu and the commits say.
How can you make and test an emulator without a keyā¦? Or romsā¦?
By home brewing a legally purchase switch obviously.
They didnāt reverse engineer the key, thatās the issue they had their publicly ripped key in a Google folder.
Where's the proof they were distributing a key?
You still fail to provide any proof.Soā¦ how did they legally test their reverse engineered emulatorā¦ without their own key or roms?
Again, by home brewing a legally purchased switch. Which again, is protected by section 107.
Thereās far more to this story than what yuzu and the commits say.
Then provide actual fucking evidence like you've been told to countless times already.
Stop with the fucking heresay already.Which they didnāt do since their ripped key was in a google drive (it was someone elseās key) and they had folders full of illegal romsā¦.
You would also need to know how decode and use that key, itās not just taking a key and suddenly you have a working emulator, you canāt be serious about this are youā¦?
Thatās not how you make an emulator and claim game preservation, sorry. Yuzu got sued and didnāt even make it to discovery, since they had nothing to stand onā¦. Since they had an illegal bios key and game roms.
Which they didnāt do since their ripped key was in a google drive (it was someone elseās key) and they had folders full of illegal romsā¦.
Again, provide proof or kindly STFU.
You would also need to know how decode and use that key, itās not just taking a key and suddenly you have a working emulator, you canāt be serious about this are youā¦?
Please learn how the fuck clean room design reverse engineering works. It's a 2 team operation were one team uses reverse engineering methods to write spec documentation without any code at all, then another team without access to copyright content using the that spec documentation to build out the actual code. This again is already deamed independent creation under section 107.
Thatās not how you make an emulator and claim game preservation, sorry. Yuzu got sued and didnāt even make it to discovery, since they had nothing to stand onā¦. Since they had an illegal bios key and game roms.
Yet again. Provide proof.
They had TOTK working on their emulator before the game released. How did they get they key, and test and update their emulator with legally acquired clean room techniquesā¦?
Sure, if you ignore the mountain of evidence, they did things kinda right. The proof is right there if you donāt just choose to ignore it since it doesnāt align with your biasā¦.
And everything is deleted and scrubbed, the only thing youāll find is posts and articles talking about it now.
You fundamentally misunderstand how emulators work. Emulators are the recreation of the actual spec of the hardware itself in software. They do not need some unique key for TOTK to work as the hardware itself is what's being emulated not some encryption key pulled of the hardware. All the key does is decode the ROMs encryption so it can be run by the hardware and inturn the emulator that's mimicking the hardware. Literally any encryption key dumped from any homebrew'd switch can decode TOTK. Not once did Yuzu access TOTK ROMs files, more over the TOTK ROMs was leaked by a 3rd party with no connection to Yuzu.
They did multiple things illegally, yet you want to still believe that they did this one specific thing correctā¦? While everything else they did wasntā¦? What have they done correct to make you believe that this was also done āby the bookāā¦?
The key that they were caught with (the one they would have given someone to clean room with) was illegally acquired. So sure they may have clean roomed it, but they acquired the original illegally, which means the software itself, before everything else, wasnāt done correctly as well. So they couldnāt use that defense like other lawsuits, so thatās why they settled out of court before discovery, since discovery would have made it far worse for them and other developers.
They fucked up, but sure defend them I guess?
Where is the proof that they illegally acquired an encryption key? Actually. Even if they acquired a key without homebrew, it still doesn't qualify as copyright infringement, that only comes into play if they were publicly distributing an illegally acquired key. Which you've yet to provide any evidence of. Again, provide literally any screenshots of them disturbing an illegally acquired key.
And again the goalposts get moved.
Why are you blindly defending Yuzu who have done every other step of this illegally and wrong? Itās honestly quite sad.
Nintendo is scum, but that doesnāt mean Yuzu also isnāt in the wrong, or does this possibility not exist hereā¦.?
I'm asking for proof that they illegally acquired an encryption key and were illegally distributing said key. All sources I've found state that the Yuzu devs used "prod.keys" obtained from legitimate Switch hardware for internal use and didn't publicly distribute any said keys. The said many sources even state that they provided directions on how to obtain your own key which isn't illegal and is in favor of them not distributing keys. This is also backed by the Yuzu source code persevered in the previously provided mirror and Yuzu website preserved here and by wayback machine.
Your failer to provide literally any source at all points to you being a biased corrupt source.https://www.wired.com/story/nintendo-yuzu-emulator-lawsuit-piracy/