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Wait, "#support-dumping" sounds like it's for helping people dump the games they have physical copies of. Basically the opposite of piracy. The screenshot look

• fxtentacle 3y ago
  You're correct. It looks to me like the Yuzu team set everything up with the best of intentions. And they were, indeed, helping people dump their own games and they had channel rules that said piracy was not allowed. They started out like an ethical open source project ... ... but around April/May 2023 the moderators made it very clear that it's good enough to PRETEND not pirating the roms. (Can't find the quote atm.) And they were discussing among the mods about people joining due to the TotK leak. And there's hundreds of people who ask "Where can I download game XY?" followed by "Thank you, kind stranger, for the link." and then maybe the rules bot saying "please don't discuss piracy in here". That all combined makes it easy to argue that the moderators in the Yuzu discord were in April 2023 fully aware that they were actively helping people play the TotK leak. And through Discord and their company, they made money off this activity. (Because you needed the early-access build only available to paid subscribers. They went out of their way to make it close to impossible to compile the supposedly "open" source code yourself.)