No that’s was the second lawsuit, Sony v Bleem!, which was a different emulator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!

Yes it is

Ah that might have been it then. As others pointed out, they never had the keys in the emulator itself.

Dunno if Yuzu provided the game itself, or tools to extract the game successfully, but the main argument from Nintendo was still copy protection bypassing, which is illegal.

Actually now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure they also nuked the Switch dumping tools from GitHub long before they killed Yuzu for the same reason. All it did was extract the firmware and console keys, but it was enough to force the tools to be rehosted.

The emulator didn’t, but I think they had one somewhere in their git history or website.

I forgot now, but I vaguely remember Nintendo pointing out a specific key that was found under the parent company’s assets.

Could be wrong though, maybe they really did just get screwed over

Hey at least it wasn’t nuclear winter ash

Emulation doesn’t just apply to games. The entire legality is based off of the fact that reverse engineering is also legal, which is how companies can replicate ideas or concepts from competitor products, or how 3rd party vendors make products compatible with other platforms.

It would be stupid to have to wait for a patent to expire before you can utilize the concept in your own product. Patent cockfighting would be a completly new level of hell, and no one would get anywhere.

Imagine having to wait 10 years before you can use 3rd party controllers for your switch because Nintendo uses a proprietary bluetooth driver. 3rd party Wiimotes wouldn’t even exist.

The only ethical conundrum is the aide in piracy, but we’ve already seen how little that has to do with emulation due to homebrew and flashcarts.

If anything, Nintendo has a higher moral ground on ROM libraries which they can argue aides in piracy due to “bypassing” copyright protection.

Nintendo succeeded in killing Yuzu because they had decryption keys which Nintendo could argue is breaking their copy protection, which is why they settled for 2.4 million dollars in sales damages because they knew they wouldn’t be able to win in court.

All of these forks have since removed the key and require the user to supply it (legally from your own console).

So in theory they should be protected under US law since emulation and reverse engineering is completely legal.

However

Nintendo also has infinite money to throw at the problem, and FOSS devs are usually not willing to deal with insane amount of personal liability because of a hobby, which is how they killed Ryujinx.

So you better hold onto your guts if you plan to fight Nintendo.

Or move to i2p so they can’t disable you lol.

No one before the 1930s had access to such a large breed of chicken lol.

They probably would have confused this picture with a miniature Turkey.

I’m more surprised this isn’t Microsoft lol

Should try securities exchange fraud instead /s

See it actually goes like this:

The cybersecurity field sees the CS and software field as a bunch of posers.

The red team (field) sees the blue team as a bunch of posers.

The actual redteam (opsec white hat) sees pentesters as a bunch of posers.

The blackhat hackers sees white hat hackers as a bunch of posers.

Most (skilled) blackhats work for an APT or Nation State, so we almost never get to see a post compromise attack that actually does anything other than crypto ransom or targeted hardware destruction.

But seriously, this post really depends on what type of cybersecurity work.

Our DC

I would expect to see this from a bunch of internal company blueteam “hackers” ;)

There has to be a joke comic about a guy trying the first item on the list and immediately getting shot.

I forgot but do browsers download binaries as executable?

One of the big issues with windows is the fact that it uses file extensions for determining file type, so EXEs can just be instantly run after downloading, which led to MSFT making the “Mark Of Th Web” attribute, which moved hackers into finding every type of bypass for MOTW.

I think straight bin downloads require you to chmod +x first, but you could also probably bypass it with any archive format like .tar.gz or opting for a .deb or .rpm.

The upside is that you really shouldn’t be downloading raw bins outside of the package manager, but there are a bunch of tools that only ship as appimages, so you’re kinda screwed if you download and execute from an untrusted source.

Shortage yes, price no.

We still had craphole companies talking about Covid supply chain issues in 2025 despite obviously having surplus stock on their products.

Fair enough, good GUI for a mouse and keyboard then lol.

Their direct Revenue from Windows is not a main concern since I think it was something like 20% as you said. The problem though is that their cloud and enterprise offerings rely on the fact that businesses buy into the Windows platform.

Absolute garbage tier software like Teams, modern O365, AD, Azure, etc only sells because its built on Windows. If MSFT loses the home market, businesses have a high chance of following, especially since their QA process relies exclusively on home users.

Companies like RedHat and OpenSUSE already provide such services and plenty of smaller or newer clients have trialed or switched user-end desktop machines over to linux.

All they really need is to reach maybe 10% desktop market share, and MSFT would start facing a slaughter in the coming years as big OEMs start shipping linux from factory.

Anyone who isn’t heavily vendor locked would probably take the chance, especially if they don’t even rely on any Windows specific functionality for work.

But yeah as you said, good riddance. Windows has been such a trash experience for me ever since 8. They ignored all the critical issues and complaints on the stupid insider hub, and then doubled down on ruining the OS further in 10 and 11.

As long as you don’t use GNOME as a good example of a good GUI

My personal choice for security stuff is ubiquiti, but I’m sure someone here can find a super cheap doorbell camera that saves to an SD card and accomplishes the same thing.

I’m really glad people didn’t just fall over for this ad, and connected the dots on what Amazon is doing

I did my desktop but skipped my server.

Even decade+ old used surplus server DDR4 didn’t escape the apocalypse.

inb4 text files from the internet now get a MOTW warning banner like macros in Office lol