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Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’
February 28, 2024
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
If you’ve ever seen a Steam Deck playing a Legend of Zelda game, chances are you were seeing the Yuzu emulator at work. Now, Nintendo has sued the developers of Yuzu in US federal court, with the intent of squashing Yuzu for good.
In the lawsuit, spotted by Stephen Totilo, Nintendo alleges that Yuzu violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as well as accusing the creators of copyright infringement. It alleges Yuzu is “primarily designed” to circumvent several layers of Nintendo Switch encryption so its users can play copyrighted Nintendo games.
“…immediately transfer the domain name yuzu-emu.org … to Nintendo’s control”
The company’s not only asking for the courts…