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I mean, many thought the same of Yuzu.

Problem is, Yuzu team were breaking other laws. They were tweaking their codebase based on leaks.

I would not be shocked to see Nintendo either attempt to un-GPL the code, claim some sort of copyright over forks, or even to maliciously inject new code in an attempt to gain access to user IP addresses and just send out letters to every Yuzu user. Nintendo really is that petty, look at what they did to Gary Bowser. They will 100% go after other emulators like this now that they know the developers will just give up in a week.

Do you know how much of society depends on GPL code? Every Android phone, every Chromebook, most servers and many billion dollar companies rely on GPL code. Nintendo attempting to un-GPL Yuzu will wake some sleeping giants, who will realise other people might attempt to do the same to the projects they rely upon. As a result the defence fund for anyone Nintendo goes after like this will end up VERY well funded. As in, make-Disney-shit-their-pants well-funded.

As for your point on Gary Bowser, you're kinda leaving out that Nintendo had a MUCH stronger case against him. Unlike emulators, the development of piracy modchips is very much illegal.

Nope. There have been monetised emulators before that have been deemed legal (see Bleem!)

Also if you break copyright law, the rights holder can come after you regardless if you are making money or not.

Exactly. And even if it did go to court, it wouldn't be hard to get EFF and the Linux Foundation to help Suyu.

The monetisation part wasn't what fucked them over, it was merely what made their more illicit activities worse.

The Yuzu team were using leaks to tweak their code, namely the ToTK leak.

They'd face a mountain of opposition from the open source community at large.

Yuzu was licensed under the GPL. Even if Nintendo are the new owners of the Yuzu code, they cannot retroactively close-source the previously open code, per the license.

If they tried that and it looked like they could set a precedent, it could spell serious trouble for other GPL projects like the Linux kernel. And they've got some serious financial backing.

It's not that they can't read, it's that you didn't put enough info in there to distinguish it from the genuine article.

If, for example, I were to satirise an antivaxxer over text (like here!) without being able to use any giveaway symbols like /s or alternate casing, I would have to go for the most batshit insane example, to the point where its not funny, just stupid. Something like 'I got vaccinated and turned into a fucking velociraptor. Jurassic Park is real! Don't believe the lies!'

Fair enough if that's your humour, but if I try to go for anything more subtle than this, I can easily be mistaken for a genuine antivaxxer, because it's not far off the BS they actually spew. In real life I can put on an exaggerated Karen voice with exaggerated resting-bitch-face and people will know I'm playing a character, rather than espousing my genuine beliefs. I can't do that over text though, so what's the alternative?

He's got a point though. Shakespeare goes into painstaking details to set up contexts and the portrayal of character emotions with the limited tools he had (remember these are 15th century plays).

A Reddit/Mastodon comment has very little background information to work from. You may know the comment they're replying to, but you don't know the content of their character. Are they a bit of a facetious troll? Do they genuinely believe what they are writing? Chances are you'll never know unless they explicitly state it.

Text communications also lack the nuances of vocal tones, of facial expressions, of body language. We have to explicitly state our emotions over text, and that's something many people aren't used to doing.

Like how I rolled my eyes when you said 'I recommend you learn how to understand context.', to which the main reasonable response is often 'what context? There is too often no context that decisively points one way or another'.

He actually did. Shakespeare's plays are meant to be portrayed by actors and not read as a book, so there is plenty of written notes for how the actors should be expressing when they say their lines.

Because those are regular jobs and skills? Okay, maybe not COBOL nowadays but still.

A corrupted password policy might do this

I understand the main thing was Yuzu was apparently offering builds that work with unreleased games (which how tf does that work)

Leaks and breaking release date is how it works.

So...pornhub has actually had problems with CSAM. It used to be much more of a Youtube-like platform where anyone can upload.

Even without that aspect, there are a looot of producers that don't do their checks well and a lot of underage actresses that fall through the cracks