Nintendo is once again sending our DMCA notices to developers behind the various Nintendo Switch emulator and forks that are currently hosted on GitHub in an effort to curb piracy. Android Authority reports that the Kyoto-based company has sent take down notices to Eden, Citron, Kenji-NX, and MeloNX, as well as projects that are no longer active, such as Sudachi and Skyline. The site reports that Citron and Eden have duplicated their repositories and hosted them on private servers meaning that their existence is going to be hard to eradicate.
Nintendo sends DMCA notices to literally every Nintendo Switch emulator and fork
Reggie should put each of these pirates in a headlock, bodyslam them, and then teabag
“How about this instead?” And then Reggie proceeds to curbstomp a guy for pirating 1 2 switch on his android phone
woah they can’t legally buy 1 2 switch if they’re dead
Pirating is the only ethical consumption of media. A shame.
Its unethical.
Say what you really think Nate! 🏴☠️
I bet everything you do is ethical.
If your a brainless redditor then sure.
Only if the game is no longer available.
It isn’t ethical even then. Should have bought it when it was available.
Nintendo Ninja’s incoming.
You guys are retarded. Most people who use emulator dump their actual owned game to play on switch emulator cause it runs better than the shit console Nintendo makes. Meanwhile yeah the ones who pirate should be stopped but emulators aren’t illegal.
I’m 36 years old and I’ve never met a single person who ever used an emulator to play games they bought legally. Not even once.
Every single game I’ve emulated I also either own or owned at some point.
The emulator is not illegal, but emulation itself is, since you are violating the copyright on software/hardware owned by a company!
As for the ‘low impact’ on sales, stop with this nonsense once and for all! A pirated game = a game not sold for them, which represents a huge loss when you add it all up, but apparently some people here still don’t understand that..
They are not going to be able to stop people’s tenacity. Given how long Nintendo is taking to be able to take them down means more people will adopt these DMCA’d projects and repurpose with a new name and design, then continue with development. Best thing Nintendo is able to do is slow them down.
If people are going to pirate then they were never planning on buying them in the 1st place (or the few that really did enjoy the game will then buy it to show support). So majority of the time they will have little to no performance impact on potential sales.
Then why complain about Nintendo taking action if it’s not going to stop them anyhow? Seems like it should be a non-issue then.
Because its an Inconvenience. Have you never complained about something that inconvenienced you? It’s really that simple.
but what if people pirating is an inconvenience to nintendo
Not really because once sued then Nintendo gets money from them.
They should go after the ROMs and keys online.
If people want to dump their own copy that they paid for and run it in 4K who cares?
if switch 2 was a more alluring value prop, they wouldn’t need to rely so heavily on backwards compatibility and these emulators could exist for the superfans who need to play DonkeyKongCountryReturnsHD in 4K and Wiimote and nunchuck controls restored.
sad to report, we’re months away from a $30 smash brothers ultimate switch 2 upgrade being announced