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This is not a winner takes all situation at all.
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This is not a winner takes all situation at all.
The DMCA says it's illegal to bypass DRM schemes based on encryption. Yuzu needs to do that to function. Therefore, Yuzu breaks the DMCA.
But, we'll see what the judge says.
This is not a case of a company that does something massively useful but then does a (relatively to the size of the company) small illegal thing on the side. The whole raison d'etre of Tropic Haze LLC is to, allegedly, break the law.
Define "now". In Spain it's been cheaper since AliExpress opened. Now it's more expensive because they have to pay VAT, but it's still cheaper.
And before AliExpress opened we had people importing stuff through eBay which was also cheaper than local retailers and Amazon.