A month after eliminating Yuzu from the emulation landscape, Nintendo ruthlessly continues 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 eradicated an entire network keeping thousands of emulated copies of its games in reserve.
Nintendo’s war on emulation never dies
Last month, Nintendo won its case against Yuzu, a well-known name in emulation. By invoking an infringement of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Japanese giant caused the closure of the emulator. Not content with this, he also obtained payment of the sum of 2.4 million dollars in damages. But that clearly wasn’t enough.
Last week, Nintendo again used the DMCA against GitHub. Specifically against a network housing exactly 8535 copies of Yuzu, containing elements of code from the original emulator. According to the manufacturer, this GitHub repository “ provided access to the Yuzu emulator or code based on the emulator. This violates Nintendo’s technological protections and allows illegal use of copies of Switch games “.
GitHub has spoken out against this attack. “ The network had more than a hundred copies of supposedly illegal content. But because the plaintiff claimed most of them infringed on his rights, GitHub was forced to take down the entire network. Or the 8,535 copies it contained “. The people who posted said copies on the network were informed. This is in order to know their own rights and the possibility of protesting against Nintendo’s decision. But the cleaning was already done.