Nintendo hits GitHub with DCMA takedown notice for 8,500 repositories

Nintendo has continued its crusade to remove any content that's being profiteered from that contains the company's copyrighted materials.

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The latest in Nintendo's efforts to expunge this content from the internet is a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for 8,535 GitHub repositories, which are the most basic element on GitHub and is a place where developers are able to store code, files and more. The DMCA notice alleges these repositories containing Nintendo IP, particularly hosting code from the Yuzu Switch emulator that Nintendo said enabled "piracy at a colossal scale".

The issuing of the DMCA notice came after Nintendo settled a lawsuit with Yuzu's creators for $2.4 million. More specifically, Nintendo claims that these repositories contain Yuzu source code that "illegally circumvents Nintendo's technological protection measures and runs illegal copies of Switch games." GitHub has responded to the takedown notice and explained developers will have time to make changes to their content before its removed.

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Furthermore, GitHub, owned by Microsoft, wrote that it would provide guidance toward legal resources and submitting DMCA counter-notices.

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