Nintendo Wipes Out 400 Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep

KellyCriterion

Its really unbelieveable how much energy Nintendo deploys to get down with all these emulators/fan-stuff/etc. Like a hungry lion, trying to eat everything around :-D

em3rgent0rdr

> The legal argument is the same in all seven. Nintendo argues that the emulators exist to bypass the encryption that protects its games, which violates the DMCA. > “During operation, the emulators at the reported repositories necessarily use unauthorized copies of these cryptographic keys to decrypt unauthorized copies of Nintendo Switch games, or ROMs, at or immediately before runtime without Nintendo’s authorization,” the notice read. Shouldn't the illegal act specifically be distributing and using unauthorized cryptographic keys , not the hosting an emulator?