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> For the record Yuzu included code for circumventing Nintendo's DRM they had on game carts. It violated the DMCA.

It doesn't, this is what Nintendo claimed but it's false. The community learned their lessons from the Wii emulation era and you are supposed to bring your own keys, nothing is included in the emulator.

And yes, they also wrote this lie on their DMCA takedown against Suyu (which also doesn't have any keys), so they officially lied on a DMCA takedown.

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>you are supposed to bring your own keys

Just because you have to bring your own keys that doesn't make it not a circumvention measure.

There's no "circumvention mesure" in there, the emulator can only read unencrypted games by default. You won't find anything in the source code, if the game is encrypted, it cannot read it.

>You won't find anything in the source code

Here's the code that breaks the DRM.

https://github.com/Fabi/yuzu-mirror-mirror/blob/master/src/c...

I disagree, this doesn't break anything, even the comments tell you so. This code does nothing by default.

Also I may mention that the support of external keys is there for you to get games for your own switch, pirates can just share decrypted games anyways.

Do you not see the references to decryption and decryption keys? This code is explicitly written to break the DRM of switch carts. If you mean by default you mean they don't provide a key, that doesn't matter in regards to it being considered corcumvention.

No that matters. As is, the emulator cannot be used to circumvent nor break any protection. Feel free to try it yourself, boot up the emulator, give it an encrypted game and see what it does.

Nintendo didn't want to get in court and also had to basically lie in a DMCA, I think that tells it all on their legal standpoint, they were afraid of creating a precedent.

Don't worry that if they were so sure to win, they would be in court already like they did with the R4 cartridge.

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