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Nintendo Issues DMCA Takedown for 8,535 Yuzu Emulator Clones on GitHub

May 3, 2024, 12:31 AM

Nintendo has issued a DMCA takedown notice targeting 8,535 clones of the Switch emulator Yuzu hosted on GitHub. This mass enforcement action addresses repositories that contain code from the Yuzu emulator, a popular tool used to run Switch games on other platforms. The takedown, which is part of Nintendo's ongoing efforts to protect its intellectual property, required the GitHub team to remove a significant number of repositories in a single sweep.