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\nA little under a month after Nintendo successfully brought an end to open-source Switch emulator Yuzu, the company has managed to wipe out 8,535 Yuzu GitHub repositories – containing code from the original emulator – all at once with a single DMCA takedown notice.\n<\/p>\n

\nAs reported by TorrentFreak<\/a>, the culling occured after Nintendo filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice with GitHub earlier this week, in which the company specifically targeted a number of repositories it claimed “provide access to the Yuzu emulator or code based on the yuzu emulator [which] illegally circumvents Nintendo’s technological protection measures and runs illegal copies of Nintendo Switch games”.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd that single takedown notice has had a domino affect. As GitHub explained in its public response to Nintendo’s DMCA submission<\/a>, “Because the reported network that contained the allegedly infringing content was larger that one hundred repositories, and the submitter alleged that all or most of the forks were infringing to the same extent as the parent repository, GitHub processed the takedown notice against the entire network of 8,535 repositories, including of the parent repository.”\n<\/p>\n

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A little under a month after Nintendo successfully brought an end to open-source Switch emulator Yuzu, the company has managed to wipe out 8,535 Yuzu GitHub repositories – containing code from the original emulator – all at once with a single DMCA takedown notice. As reported by TorrentFreak, the culling occured after Nintendo filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice with GitHub earlier this week, in which the company specifically targeted a number of repositories it claimed “provide access to the Yuzu emulator or code based on the yuzu emulator [which] illegally circumvents Nintendo’s technological protection measures and runs illegal copies of Nintendo Switch games”. And that single takedown notice has had a domino affect. As GitHub explained in its public response to Nintendo’s…<\/p>\n

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