
Nintendo is having a bad one. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has leaked well ahead of its official Friday release, prompting the company to mercilessly fire off DMCA takedown requests, most notably to GitHub, for hosting crucial code used by emulators like Yuzu. So trigger-happy are they, that Nintendo has erroneously issued a takedown request targeting legit preview footage, resulting in a prominent Twitch streamer's temporary banning.
Streamer, podcaster and Sony Santa Monica writer Alanah Pearce tweeted yesterday that her Twitch account was suspended mid-stream as she reacted to Nintendo-approved preview footage belonging to Skill Up. By "Nintendo-approved", I mean the footage was legitimately recorded by Skill Up during a Nintendo-hosted event, which Nintendo organised in order to promote this Nintendo-developed game.