Nintendo orders the removal of over 8,500 Yuzu clones on GitHub

by Danny Craig  · 
Nintendo orders the removal of over 8,500 Yuzu clones on GitHub
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Nintendo issued a DMCA notice on GitHub, causing 8,535 clones of the now-defunct Yuzu Switch emulator to be removed from the platform in a single sweep.

The details:

  • In late February, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the creator of Yuzu, accusing the developer of "facilitating piracy on a colossal scale" by encouraging the use of its emulator to play illegitimate Switch games. The suit was settled a week later, with Tropic Haze agreeing to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and discontinue the development of Yuzu and the 3DS emulator Citra.

  • TorrentFreak reports that thousands of copies of the open-source emulator hosted on developer platform GitHub have been removed after the company filed a DMCA claim. In the notice, Nintendo claimed that the reuploads "provide access to the Yuzu emulator or code based on the Yuzu emulator [which] illegally circumvents Nintendo's technological protection measures and runs illegal copies of Nintendo Switch games".

  • GitHub commented on the situation, confirming that owners of the parent repositories have been provided with legal resources if they wish to dispute Nintendo's claim or change their uploaded content to meet the company's requirements. “Because the reported network that contained the allegedly infringing content was larger than one hundred (100) repositories, and the submitter alleged that all or most of the forks were infringing to the same extent as the parent repository, GitHub processed the takedown notice against the entire network of 8,535 repositories, inclusive of the parent repository,” GitHub said.

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