First off, no one has any obligation to prop Nintendo's or other game developers' business.

Not to mention piracy obviously isn't stealing. Can't believe it's 2024 and some people are still reheating this strawman.

You have a right to make backup copies of your games, but do you have a right to make backup copies of decryption keys?

Doesn't the law state that helping people bypass copyright protection is illegal?

Even when copyright law permits your use of a work, it may be illegal to circumvent an access-control technology to make that use. From the university of Michigan...

17 U.S.C. § 1201 prohibits the circumvention of any technological measure that “effectively controls access” to a work that is protected under U.S. copyright law. For instance, it is generally illegal under this provision to circumvent the Content Scramble System that restricts access to in-copyright works on some DVDs. This is known as the anti-circumvention provision of section 1201. Section 1201 also prohibits trafficking in tools that circumvent effective access controls or circumvent controls that protect “a right of the copyright holder under this title.” That is known as the anti-trafficking provision.

Did Bleem allow people to play digital copies of games? Perhaps Bleem won their legal battle because people were simply using it to play games they already owned? Or perhaps Bleem allowed people to download and pirate games off the Internet too. Anybody know the history of Bleem well enough to answer this?

As far as I'm concerned Yuzu and MigSwitch devs are leeches that skirt around the grey areas of the law with no regard to the damage they cause.

First Yuzu devs pirated TotK before it was out. Next they worked specifically on improving compatibility with said game. Finally they took money for doing so.

Anybody that still thinks Yuzu devs had the best of intentions and just wanted to "preserve games" is sticking their head in the sand.

Unless a console is long discontinued emulators are about piracy. Always will be. Always have been.

Edit: So whether or not they stole the SDK can't be confirmed. The actual stash of stolen games has been confirmed though. 

Ryujinx devs better not make the same mistakes Yuzu devs did lol.

AFAIK, Ryujinx is now the only, at least notable, Switch emulator.

This is the only hope left.... its not as great as yuzu, from what I heard.
They better not be doing anything fool hardy.

The Yuzu devs, used a leaked nintendo rom of Tears of the Kingdom. I think another question should be why nintendo leaked a rom?

Yes, this is not a good look, but they did that in the hopes of getting their emulator working well with tears of the kingdom early on.
Thats like their entire goal with Yuzu being not just a fan-made love project/ hobby like thing, but a group of guys hired programmers with paetron. Its what sets it apart from other switch emulators, that dont run games as well, or are as quick to get new games running perfectly.

Yes, the fact that they got it to work almost instantly, and well before Tears of the kingdom was even released on the switch.... is crazy.
Yes, they did infact like double their paetron donations, for a few months, likely off of people wanting to play tears of the kingdom early.

This is why they settled for $2,4m. Which is likely more money than they ever made from Yuzu.

Still I dont get why this makes them out to be like badguys....
They aimed to make a great emulator and did.
Are they responsible for how others use it?

I'd argue the closure of Citra is inherently a worse consequence of this whole affair than the closure of Yuzu itself.

There are other 3DS emulators, but they're far of where Citra was at.
Glad that I have my New 2DS to still play my games nonetheless !