Nintendo Takes Down Over 400 Switch Emulator Repositories
Nintendo said the notices targeted emulators that bypass Switch protections and let users run pirated games, citing past legal cases as precedent.
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Nintendo just went nuclear on Switch emulators (again)
TL;DR Nintendo has filed seven new DMCA notices taking down over 400 GitHub repositories related to Switch emulators. The notice took down repos for emulators such as Suyu, Skyline, and several others. It’s no secret that Nintendo has historically taken an extremely strict stance against emulators and people using its IP without permission. A few months ago, the company sent DMCA notices to take down several Switch emulators whose code was host…
Nintendo orchestrated a wave of massive deletions, removing more than 400 deposits linked to emulators from its Switch console on the GitHub platform. This targeted offensive, which mainly affects Suyu (successor of Yuzu) and Skyline, relies on DMCA complaints accusing these software of illegally bypassing the console's technical protections to operate pirated copies of games.
Nintendo has again deployed one of its biggest offensives against Nintendo Switch emulation, getting GitHub to remove 401 repositories related to console emulators from a single tap. Last week the company launched seven DMCA warnings against seven main repositories, but GitHub’s forks system greatly multiplied its scope. The operation mainly affected Suyu, Yuzu’s successor, although it also reached Skyline, MonoNX and different copies and versio…
Nintendo remains true to form and is once again cracking down on Switch emulators. As TorrentFreak reports, the company filed seven DMCA complaints in a single day... Read the article: Nintendo cracks down on Switch emulators again Where to follow us: Facebook, Reddit, Google News, X, Threads Want to stay up to date? Add us to your favorite sources on Google!
Nintendo takes down over 400 GitHub repositories for Switch emulators in one go — Relentless DMCA strikes tied to piracy concerns over illegal cryptographic keys
Nintendo has just issued DMCA takedowns against seven GitHub repositories hosting Switch emulation code, leading to 401 affected repos being removed from the platform. Most of these belonged to a single parent repo of the Suyu emulator, which itself is a fork of the previously shut down Yuzu emulator. Nintendo leveraged GitHub policies to their fullest extent to execute its notice, arguing that emulators inherently rely on circumventing anti-pir…
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