Nintendo gained attention once more, but this time it was through a lawsuit against Yuzu, the well-known Switch emulator, for allegedly encouraging piracy. The Japanese gaming company is well-known for suing anything that even slightly imitates or makes use of its intellectual property or intellectual property. Regretfully, the developers of the well-known switch emulator, Tropic Haze LLC, were disadvantaged this time.
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On January 26, 2024, Nintendo of America filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze LLC, the creators of the emulator, for facilitating piracy in the US Federal Court and intended to Shtdown the service.
The lawsuit, which was posted by Stephen Totilo on X, states that the Japanese game corporation is out for Tropic Haze LLC’s (the team behind the emulator) blood because The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was unlawfully distributed before its release. The following has been stated in the lawsuit:
“A video game emulator is a piece of software that allows users to unlawfully play pirated videogames that were published only for a specific console on a general-purpose computing device.”
It further stated:
“The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, was unlawfully distributed a week and a half before its release by Nintendo. Infringing copies of the game that circulated online were able to be played in Yuzu, and those copies were successfully downloaded from pirate websites over one million times before the game was published and made available for lawful purchase.”
Nintendo is notorious for suing creators and filing litigation, so this is nothing new. The business filed a DMCA against Valve last year about Dolphin Emulator, an additional program that let customers play PC games from the Gamecube and Wii.
The Japanese game corporation plans to extract much money from Tropic Haze LLC, seize everything related to the emulator, such as chatrooms and domains, and surrender yuzu-emu.org to them.