Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.

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[–] 8 points 19 hours ago* (1 child)

Unfortunately, the settlement with Yuzu set a dangerous precedent. The judge decided that since Yuzu requires the keys to play the games, then Yuzu is clearly "primarily designed to circumvent encryption to directly violate the DMCA" or whatever.

So Switch 2 emulators not using keys at all in any part of the process maybe protects them from that angle. They require decrypted games, so only the decrypting/dumping tools might be susceptible to takedown in the same way.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago

    Yuzu settled out of court didn't they?

    Plus nintendo only swooped in after yuzu released an update optimising for an game not yet released - destroying any kind of clean room argument.

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