Nintendo DMCA takedown wipes over 8,500 Yuzu emulator copies 🥶

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After slamming the Switch emulator Yuzu with a $2.4 million lawsuit that caused it to shut down, Nintendo is now taking aim at its copies. The gaming giant submitted a total of 8,535 takedown notices for Yuzu emulator forks on GitHub, as spotted earlier by TorrentFreak and PCGamer.

When news of Nintendo’s lawsuit against Yuzu first broke, users began preserving the emulator’s code by making copies and uploading it to places like GitHub. But now, a copy of Nintendo’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown request says GitHub took action “against the entire network of 8,535 repositories, inclusive of the parent repository.”

The request says the repositories in question “offer and provide access to the yuzu emulator or code,” adding that “yuzu illegally circumvents Nintendo’s technological protection measures and runs illegal copies of Nintendo Switch games.” Nintendo argues that Yuzu uses “unauthorized” versions of the cryptographic keys required to run Switch games.

Nintendo’s legal team has been very busy over the past few months. In addition to taking down Yuzu and its clones, the company has also targeted the physics sandbox game Garry’s Mod. The game’s developer confirmed in April that it received takedown notices from Nintendo, resulting in the removal of 20 years’ worth of Nintendo-related add-ons.

What do you think of Nintendo's approach?

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RPGLover88

Nintendo is just a shi*ty company. Theyre greedy as f*ck! They only think of themselves instead of their players. Thats one of the reasons why I stopped buying their games. Companies like that dont deserve my money nor my respect. Theres still Ryujinx, so Ill use that emulator if I wanna play a NSwitch game. Still, I wonder what happened to them? They werent like that before.... 🙁

05/04/2024

Dusk

You know, if they just don't want to be greedy, they could release their own emulator for the players who don't own a console to play, but they always think of a method to milk gamers of money. Can't blame them though; it was business.

05/04/2024

youtube stock

but im still using it duhh

Yohanes Irfan

yeah i gree nitendo so suck and bad company i stop buy game from nitendo because i choose ryujinx, Yuzu and suyu emulator

05/08/2024

Vior Clyvz

thats what you get when you dont fight back..😼😼😼

05/03/2024

Wave

how was yuzu team supposed to have the money to fight nintendo? of course yuzu team folded instantly because nintendo just has too much money. had Tropic Haze LLC had enough money to get this to an actual judge, the judge would have ruled in favor of the yuzu emulator. nintendo won by default because of money and the way the US legal system works.

05/04/2024

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