Nintendo Settles Lawsuit Against Switch Emulator Developers
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Nintendo sued Switch emulator Yuzu's developers for copyright infringement. Yuzu enables playing pirated Switch games.
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Yuzu's developers agreed to pay Nintendo $2.4 million in a settlement and cease work on Yuzu and 3DS emulator Citra.
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Yuzu's developers deleted code repositories, shut down Patreon and Discord servers, and took down the website.
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Lawsuit highlighted widespread distribution of pirated copies of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom using Yuzu before launch.
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Yuzu launched in 2018, Citra in 2014. Yuzu doesn't distribute pirated games itself but its community does.