Switch emulator Yuzu has been sued for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’
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Tropical Haze LLC, the company behind the Nintendo Switch emulator known as Yuzu, has been sued by Nintendo in US federal court. The Japanese tech giant claims that the emulator violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
In a preliminary statement, Nintendo accused the defendant of “facilitating piracy on a colossal scale.”
In addition to this, Nintendo has alleged that Yuzu has broken copyright law, arguing that the emulator is “primarily designed” to evade the encryption of the Nintendo Switch allowing its copyrighted content to be emulated for players in unlawful ways.
While Nintendo’s driving focus is to remove Yuzu as a whole and prevent its use in any capacity, the company also wants to remove any domains, URLs, chat rooms, and social media presence that Tropic Haze may have developed for Yuzu. Additionally, Nintendo wishes to seize and destroy any hard drives linked to the emulator to ensure that any trace of the emulator is removed immediately.
Nintendo has stated that the emulator is “facilitating piracy at a colossal scale” by providing “detailed instructions” on how to use the software to play through “unlawful copies of Nintendo Switch games” while also pointing users in the direction of questionable sites to assist their emulation by giving them access to game keys.
Full details of the case can be found in the released lawsuit, asshared to X (formally Twitter) by Stephen Totilo. Although it may be a while before the results of the lawsuit will be shared, it doesn’t look good for Yuzu.
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Kara is an Evergreen writer at TechRadar Gaming. With a degree in Journalism and a passion for the weird and wonderful, she’s spent the last few years as a freelance video game journalist, with bylines at NintendoLife, Attack of the Fanboy, Prima Games, and sister publication, GamesRadar+. Outside of gaming, you’ll find her re-watching Gilmore Girls or trying to cram yet another collectible onto a shelf that desperately needs some organizing.
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