It feels like the Yuzu Nintendo saga has been going on for decades. Recently, Nintendo won a lawsuit against Yuzu, but it seems that the battle is not over. After all, it's hard to completely remove something from the Internet, right? So, right after Yuzu was banished, new fork emulators appeared. Now it seems Nintendo has targeted a massive network of Yuzu forks and clones with a single DMCA takedown.
Nintendo issues DMCA takedown notices for 8,500+ Yuzu repositories
According to reports from TorrentFreak, in a new move, Nintendo targeted several versions of the Yuzu emulator on Github, a popular code-sharing platform, and removed over 8,535 repositories.
About the topic, GitHub says: "Because the reported network containing the allegedly infringing content was greater than one hundred (100) repositories, and the submitter alleged that all or most of the forks infringed to the same extent as the parent repository, GitHub treated the takedown notice against the entire the network of 8,535 archives, including the parent archive.”
Nintendo, in its lawsuit, clearly states: "With Yuzu in hand, nothing prevents a user from obtaining and playing illegal copies of virtually any game made for the Nintendo Switch, all without paying a dime to Nintendo or to any of the hundreds other game developers and publishers who make and sell games for the Nintendo Switch”, Nintendo further states:
