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Nintendo's latest DMCA takedown notice eliminates 8535 Yuzu emulator copies in one go

A little under a month after Nintendo successfully brought an end to open-source Switch emulator Yuzu, the company has …

A little under a month after Nintendo successfully brought an end to open-source Switch emulator Yuzu, the company has managed to wipe out 8,535 Yuzu forks - containing code from the original emulator - all at once with a single DMCA takedown notice. As reported by TorrentFreak, the culling occured after Nintendo filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice with GitHub earlier this week, in which the company specifically targeted a number of repositories it claimed "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". Tropic Haze also faced a permanent injunction preventing it from "offering to the public, providing, marketing, advertising, promoting, selling, testing, hosting, cloning, distributing, or otherwise trafficking in Yuzu or any source code or features of Yuzu", as well as "other software or devices that circumvent Nintendo's technical protection measures".

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