A month after eliminating Yuzu from the emulation landscape, Nintendo is mercilessly continuing its war against open source copies of its games.
Nintendo’s intransigence towards emulation continues to show. In one fell swoop, the Japanese giant has just wiped out an entire network and kept thousands of emulated copies of its games in reserve.
Nintendo’s war on emulation never ends
Last month, Nintendo won its case against Yuzu, a well-known name in the emulation space. Citing a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Japanese giant caused the emulator to be shut down. Not satisfied with this, he also received payment of $2.4 million in damages. But that clearly wasn’t enough.
Last week, Nintendo again used the DMCA against GitHub. Especially against a network that contains exactly 8535 copies of Yuzu and contains code elements from the original emulator. According to the manufacturer, this GitHub repository is “ Providing access to the Yuzu emulator or code based on the emulator. This violates Nintendo’s technological safeguards and allows copies of Switch games to be used illegally ».
GitHub has spoken out against this attack. “ The network had more than a hundred copies of supposedly illegal content. However, since the plaintiff claimed that most of them violated his rights, GitHub was forced to shut down the entire network. Or the 8,535 copies it contains “. The people who published these copies on the network have been informed. This is done in order to know their own rights and have the opportunity to protest against Nintendo’s decision. But the cleaning was already done.
