Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for over 8,000 GitHub repositories hosting code from the Yuzu Switch emulator, which the Zelda maker previously described as enabling “piracy at a colossal scale.”
Emulators in themselves are legal. The people who develop the emulators aren’t responsible for how a person obtains the ROMs. It makes more sense to punish the repositories storing pirated games, not the emulator developers.
Emulators in themselves are legal. The people who develop the emulators aren’t responsible for how a person obtains the ROMs. It makes more sense to punish the repositories storing pirated games, not the emulator developers.