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Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued (arstechnica.com)
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[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

There’s literally nothing that legally bars emulator devs from being paid, or even releasing their emulator as a commercial product outright. Except being sued and the cost of fighting that suit burying them financially.

Bleem! eventually won, and it was a commercial emulator for a then-current gen console. The cost of winning that fight put them out of business.

So basically large corporations get to decide if unaffiliated developers can earn money. Seems reasonable.

I don't see how your comment contradicts mine at all.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

More like anyone can sue anyone for anything, even if they have no chance of winning and sometimes corps do exactly that to force a settlement so you'll do what they want even if you did nothing wrong.

Any action you take happens only because billionaires and massive corps don't consider you worth suing over it. Even if there is nothing resembling legitimate grounds to do so because they can tie you up in court until you are bankrupt.

I always like pointing out the fatal mistake of Gawker - they outed that a billionaire was gay while he was in a country where being gay was punishable by death. He then spent the next several years offering to fund any lawsuit that had any chance of success against them in revenge, and eventually one stuck.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Anyone can sue for any reason + large corporations can force a settlement = large corporations can decide if unaffiliated devs earn money for any reason.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

large corporations can decide if unaffiliated devs earn money for any reason.

Large corporations and sufficiently rich individuals can decide if you do anything for any reason. Bringing up unaffiliated devs earning money is just narrowing the scope beyond what it actually is. Again, everything you do happens only because the exceedingly wealthy and massive corps don't consider you worth suing over it.

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