Nintendo continues its DMCA takedown rampage this week as it has taken down 8,535 Yuzu repos on Github, perhaps the most effective single takedown notice seen in recent years. The move to strike follows Nintendo's attack on Garry's Mod user-generated content last week, likely signaling a bolder Nintendo legal team than we've seen before.
Yuzu, a popular Nintendo Switch emulator, has been a target of Nintendo's ire for some time now. Nintendo took Yuzu to court in February of this year, claiming that the emulator enabled "piracy at a colossal scale". After a few short weeks, Yuzu's developers settled the lawsuit for $2.4 million. Since this settlement, Nintendo has sent various DMCA takedown notices across the web to remove Yuzu distributions. Its most recent takedown stepped matters up several notches of intensity, triggering a chain reaction across a web of Github repo networks which eventually found 8,535 targets. Thanks to this breathtaking takedown, Yuzu files have been made exceedingly scarce.
