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My impression was that EFF and the like were bearish on 1201(f) because of that last part, "to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title." and "to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title." because that essentially forecloses any practical application of 1201(f).


"infringement" in this case means traditional copyright infringement, not DMCA circumvention infringement. Legitimate users of Switch games will have a strong fair use case for this.


While I'm willing to believe that someone like the EFF or similar will step up to provide them competent legal representation given the stakes of this case, I doubt that Yuzu will win against Nintendo given things like the Psystar vs Apple case. That ship sailed 20 years ago and the future is one of being ruled by the whims of major software producers :(


AFAIK Psystar lost because they bundled macOS with their product.


Let's hope you're right.




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