Nintendo suing developers of a Switch emulator for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’

In a new lawsuit filed this week, Nintendo accuses the developer of the Switch emulator of copyright infringement and pirating video game software.

of lawsuit The lawsuit was filed by Nintendo in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island on Monday. Nintendo is accusing Tropic Haze LLC of knowing that the use of its Yuzu emulator was being used to “facilitate piracy on a massive scale.” It also alleges that the developer violated provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), including workarounds and anti-trafficking measures.

The complaint defines a video game emulator as “software that allows pirated video games released only for specific consoles to be played illegally on general-purpose computing devices.” The company told others how Yuzu could “evade” the Nintendo Switch console and “create illegal copies of encrypted games to allow Yuzu to circumvent and play those games.” He claims to be teaching.

“With Yuzu, there is nothing stopping users from obtaining and playing illegal copies of virtually any game made for the Nintendo Switch. “Without paying a penny to hundreds of other game developers and publishers who are using the Nintendo Switch,” the complaint says.

“In effect, Yuzu turns a common computing device into a tool for large-scale intellectual property infringement against the copyrighted works of Nintendo and others,” the complaint adds.

Yuzu’s website “yuzu-emu.org” mentioned in the complaint includes the following disclaimer about the website:Compliant.” With DMCA. However, Nintendo claimed that using Yuzu in its games was illegal.

“And to be clear, there is no legal way to play Nintendo Switch games using Yuzu, including the need to break the game’s encryption. “Nintendo must be held accountable for knowingly providing users with the means to infringe on Nintendo’s intellectual property rights. The harm to Nintendo is clear and irreparable,” the complaint states. There is.

The Hill has reached out to Nintendo and Yuzu for additional comment.