When Nintendo threatened to plunge the creators of Yuzu into the depths of reality with a huge lawsuit, the developers did not hesitate to back down and cancel the project entirely. However, the community, determined to continue maintaining the freedom of emulators, began to deploy source code and tools so that other applications similar to Yuzu They could proliferate and multiply as spores. But not even those have tired Nintendo.
More than 8.500 emulators canceled
Nintendo's latest attack has gone directly into the hornet's nest. As pointed out in TorrentFreak, the Japanese company has presented a DMCA notice by copyright directly to GitHub, encouraging the company to take action against a series of repositories that “provided access to the Yuzu emulator or Yuzu-based code, which illegally circumvents Nintendo's technological protection measures and runs illegal cups of Nintendo Switch games.”
GitHub, aware of what happened, began to remove the references, which resulted in a total of 8.535 repositories affected. And as we mentioned, the response from the community was massive, since the Yuzu clones did not take long to appear after her disappearance. We now know that more than 8.500 tools based on Yuzu were still alive on GitHub, although unfortunately everything has disappeared after the new threat from Nintendo.
Of course, GitHub has not betrayed the owners of the repositories. The company informed them all about how to make changes and how to file complaints with the DMCA notice, and even offered legal remedies if necessary. It is obvious that the health of the service is due to its clients, and closing 8.835 repositories overnight should not sit too well with either party.
Are emulators going to end?
The eternal question remains unanswered. The use of emulators continues to have a basis focused on piracy, and as long as that exists, these types of applications have their days numbered. At least on Nintendo's part. But the right to be able to make backup copies and run them still exists, and unless we move to a fully digital model, many users are going to want to continue making backup copies of their games, as ridiculous and implausible as it may sound.
Nintendo will remain faithful to its principles, and will defend its products and intellectual property until the end of its days, so we imagine that this battle will continue to exist until one of the sides finally shows the white flag of surrender.
Source: GitHub
Vía: TorrentFreak