Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo NEW: Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo's software encryption and facilitates piracy. Seeks damages for alleged violations and a shutdown of the emulator. NINTENDO OF AMERICA INC., V. Plaintiff, TROPIC HAZE LLC, 2. Defendant. NO. COMPLAINT JURY DEMAND PRELIMINARY STATEMENT Plaintiff Nintendo of America Inc. ("Nintendo of America Inc." or "Plaintiff""), by and through its counsel, on personal knowledge as to its own actions and on information and belief as to the actions, capabilities, and motivations of others, hereby alleges as follows: 1. Nintendo of America Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nintendo Co., Ltd., markets and distributes electronic video game consoles, games, and accessories developed by Nintendo Co., Ltd., including the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, and Nintendo Switch OLED consoles (collectively the "Nintendo Switch"). Nintendo of America Inc. and Nintendo Co., Ltd. are together referred to herein as "Nintendo." Nintendo also makes award-winning and beloved video games that can be played only on the Nintendo Switch, including such well- known franchises as Mario and The Legend of Zelda. Nintendo has sold over 139 million Nintendo Switch consoles (and counting), making it the third most popular video game console of all time. Defendant Tropic Haze LLC is an entity that owns, develops, and operates "Yuzu," a video game emulator for Nintendo Switch games. A video game emulator is a piece of software that allows users to unlawfully play pirated video games that were published only 3:31 PM Feb 27, 2024 4.3M Views . 13. Defendant and its agents are fully aware of the use of Yuzu by others in performing circumvention, and in facilitating piracy at a colossal scale. As to circumvention, Yuzu's website acknowledges that the Nintendo Switch's decryption keys (the prod.keys) are required to decrypt games and includes links to software that unlawfully extract those keys from the Nintendo Switch.2 As to piracy, for instance, one recent major Nintendo video game, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, was unlawfully distributed week and a half before its release by Nintendo. Infringing copies of the game that circulated online were able to be played in Yuzu, and those copies were successfully downloaded from pirate websites. over one million times before the game was published and made available for lawful purchase by Nintendo. Many of the pirate websites specifically noted the ability to play the game file in Yuzu. Defendant's development and distribution of Yuzu to the public materially contributes 2 See Quickstart Guide, Yuzu, https://yuzu-emu.org/help/quickstart/ ("Dumping Decryption Keys") (accessed February 21, 2024). Case 1:24-cv-00082-JJM-LDA Document 1 ... to and induces those third parties to infringe the copyrights in Nintendo's games. Defendant is thus secondarily liable for the infringement committed by the users to whom it distributes Yuzu. Filed 02/26/24 Page 6 of 41 PagelD #: 6

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maruposting: I want to make it perfectly clear, Yuzu was absolutely paywalling early access builds. There are multiple programs and Githubs made specifically to get around this because it was so annoying that they would paywall fixes for every major title. Support emulation and f--- Nintendo, but don't cover up Yuzu's legitimately s----- practices to make your case. Go use Ryujinx instead. Oh hey it looks like they are releasing telemetry data as a part of the settlement which also includes official Citra builds. Strange that they kept all that and user metrics. I don't recall a way to opt out of that. Dig into this even a little bit and it's mountains of horrible practices and behavior for both Citra and Yuzu teams. Their incredible hostility towards other emulator devs, especially towards Cemu. (Who they criticized over paywalling btw Imao) This is more of a personal criticism, but when people are regularly linking 4chan threads to get a decent unofficial build of your emulator because your support for unofficial branches is so bad, you might have a problem. The latter half of the 3DS life cycle was a very unique type of hell for emulation. All of these very specific projects and poor practices aside. EMULATION IS VITAL Hundreds of completely unpaid hours go into emulation development which have made countless games playable across the world even with physical unavailability. They help bridge language and geographic barriers and are especially vital for lost media documentation. Not to mention digital media ownership being revoked and digital marketplaces shutting down every few months, there are so few reliable ways to hold onto digital media. Don't let irresponsible companies like Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft crush efforts to prevent that.

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Yuzu will live under a new name “nuzu”

FCK PC Focus DRM @PC_Focus_ Yuzu will live under a new name "nuzu" "Nuzu is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator, designed for legal usage, and developed with portability in mind. It is written in C++ and actively maintained for Windows and Linux platforms" Nikilites/nuzu Yuzu based repository. If you are a developer and able to continue this project, contact me on Reddit 831 8 1 P 22 Contributor Issues Stars GitHub - Nikilites/nuzu: Yuzu based repository. If you are a developer and able to contin... From github.com 4:43 AM Mar 5, 2024 205.3K Views Fork ...

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miyamoto himself forcing the yuzu devs to write this

ba tgirl swag #A @nonbatnary miyamoto himself forcing the yuzu devs to write this II GIF ALT yuzu @yuzuemu. 19h More M Hello yuz-ers and Citra fans: We write today to inform you that yuzu and yuzu's support of Citra are being discontinued, effective immediately. yuzu and its team have always been against piracy. We started the projects in good faith, out of passion for Nintendo and its consoles and games, and were not intending to cause harm. But we see now that because our projects can circumvent Nintendo's technological protection measures and allow users to play games outside of authorized hardware, they have led to extensive piracy. In particular, we have been deeply disappointed when users have used our software to leak game content prior to its release and ruin the experience for legitimate purchasers and fans. We have come to the decision that we cannot continue to allow this to occur. Piracy was never our intention, and we believe that piracy of video games and on video game consoles should end. Effective today, we will be pulling our code repositories offline, discontinuing our Patreon accounts and Discord servers, and, soon, shutting down our websites. We hope our actions will be a small step toward ending piracy of all creators' works. Thank you for your years of support and for understanding our decision. 3:56 PM. Mar 4, 2024 26.7K Views

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Hello internet! 👋

ANA dynamicz Ninja Dynamics @ninjadynamics Hello internet! yuzu-mainline-20240303-7ffac53c9.Applmage 777 yuzu-mainline-master.zip 7z yuzu-master.zip 77 yuzu-windows-msvc-20240303-7ffac53c9.zip Burn to Disc Please wait... Burning the data files to the disc... Estimated time left: 60 seconds 2024-03-04 21:19 2024-03-04 19:27 2024-03-04 19:27 2024-03-04 21:12 APPIMAGE Fil ZIP File ZIP File ZIP File Next DVD 3:36 PM Mar 4, 2024 · 645.9K Views . DVD-R 120 min GB Yuzu 04-03-2024

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Yuzu Shuts Down to Better Emulate Video Game Industry

Hard Drive @Hard DriveMag Yuzu Shuts Down to Better Emulate Video Game Industry Yuzu Shuts Down to Better Emulate Video Game Industry From hard-drive.net D 3:12 PM Mar 4, 2024 · 274.2K Views .

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yuzu taking the lawsuit out of court so that Nintendo doesn't have legal ammo against other emulators:

Maple J Milk @maples_milk yuzu taking the lawsuit out of court so that Nintendo doesn't have legal ammo against other emulators: II GIF ALT

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final message in the yuzu discord general channel

[archer] @archer_uwu final message in the yuzu discord general channel Alter @unicodesnek Today at 2:31 PM F discord GreenSwede @greenswede Today at 2:31 PM Barnar 46 42 43 43 59 263 37 39 You must verify your identity by phone before you can send messages in this server. Barnars 2:46 PM Mar 4, 2024 213.3K Views 34 F 47 36 39 : Verify Phone to

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Final Message From Team Yuzu

Hello yuz-ers and Citra fans: We write today to inform you that yuzu and yuzu's support of Citra are being discontinued, effective immediately. yuzu and its team have always been against piracy. We started the projects in good faith, out of passion for Nintendo and its consoles and games, and were not intending to cause harm. But we see now that because our projects can circumvent Nintendo's technological protection measures and allow users to play games outside of authorized hardware, they have led to extensive piracy. In particular, we have been deeply disappointed when users have used our software to leak game content prior to its release and ruin the experience for legitimate purchasers and fans. We have come to the decision that we cannot continue to allow this to occur. Piracy was never our intention, and we believe that piracy of video games and on video game consoles should end. Effective today, we will be pulling our code repositories offline, discontinuing our Patreon accounts and Discord servers, and, soon, shutting down our websites. We hope our actions will be a small step toward ending piracy of all creators' works. Thank you for your years of support and for understanding our decision.

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In light of Yuzu getting shut down, I wanted to make this PSA poster, because I get the feeling that this was a huge factor into Nintendo being made aware of it.

Firey Ocean @FireyOcean92 In light of Yuzu getting shut down, I wanted to make this PSA poster, because I get the feeling that this was a huge factor into Nintendo being made aware of it. IF YOU WANT TO FLEX TO THE MULTI- BILLION DOLLAR GAME COMPANY THAT YOU'RE GOING TO PIRATE THEIR GAME WITH A SPECIFIC EMULATOR, NO YOU F------ DON'T ALL THAT DOES IS LET THEM KNOW THE EMULATOR EXISTS, AND THEY WILL TRY THEIR HARDEST TO SHUT IT DOWN. LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS 2:22 PM Mar 4, 2024 373.8K Views

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i dont really think they deserve all too much sympathy for reaping what they sowed

Rhey @Rheycore blah blah blah nintendo bad, whatever, i just want you people to consider for a minute that yuzu's team is notorious for stealing code from other emulators and paywalling their releases on patreon, i dont really think they deserve all too much sympathy for reaping what they sowed OatmealDome @OatmealDome • 20h [yuzu] yuzu, in its current form, will cease to exist. Their settlement with Nintendo prohibits any distribution of yuzu in built and ... Show more ent injunction is entered against Defendant enjoini ees, independent contractors, successors, assigns, ol from: fering to the public, providing, marketing, ad hosting, cloning, distributing, or otherwise traffic atures of Yuzu; fering to the public, providing, marketing, ad osting, cloning, distributing, or otherwise traffickir umvent Nintendo's technical protection measur 2:11 PM Mar 4, 2024 33.3K Views employees, independent contractors, successors, assigns, attorneys, and all third parties acting in active concert or participation with Defendant-including but not limited to any domain name registrars or registries holding or listing Defendant's Website: surrender, and permanently cease to use, the domain name YUZU- EMU.ORG, any variant or successor thereof controlled by Defendant or its members, and any other website or system that Defendant or its members owns or controls, directly or indirectly, that involves or harms Nintendo's Intellectual Property; and to the extent the domain is under Defendant or its members' custody or control, or under the control of registrars or registries with notice of this Order, immediately transfer the domain name YUZU-EMU.ORG, any variant or successor thereof a. : b. annteallad kus Dafandant an ita mamaham and an athan mahaita au muntans that afandant election and to the extent controlled by Defendant or its members, the destruction by deletion of all circumvention devices, including all copies of Yuzu, all circumvention tools used for developing or using Yuzu such as TegraRcmGUI, Hekate, Atmosphère, Lockpick_RCM, NDDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and TegraExplorer, and all copies of Nintendo cryptographic keys including the prod.keys, and all other electronic material within Defendant or its members' custody, possession, or control that violate Nintendo's rights under the DMCA or infringe copyrights owned or exclusively licensed by Nintendo. 6. The Court further orders, pursuant to 17 U.S.C. §§ 503 & 1203, upon Nintendo's election and to the extent controlled by Defendant or its members, the handing over to Nintendo of all physical circumvention devices that circumvent or attempt to circumvent the Technological

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Do not be afraid to emulate and don’t let Nintendo scare you! They’ve been bullying for decades.

Zophar @TheRealZophar Emulation is legal. YUZU settled as they didn't want to fight Nintendo's endless money, and gave too much information out with regards to the key decryption process. Do not be afraid to emulate and don't let Nintendo scare you! They've been bullying for decades. Remember this? There's no such thing as a Nintendo. There's the Nintendo Entertainment System. There's Nintendo® game software. And there's Nintendo Power™ magazine. But there's no such thing as a Nintendo. You see, “Nintendo" is an adjective, not a noun. It is our registered trademark that identifies the high quality products marketed and licensed by Nintendo of America Inc. So please use our trademark carefully. And never use it generically to describe all video game products. We thank you. Mario thanks you. Nintendo ©1990 NINTENDO OF AMERICA INC. 1:33 PM. Mar 4, 2024 174.7K Views

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Typical Nintendrone response

Bloo @BlooHook Typical Nintendrone response Emulated games $0 Emulated games $60 Sold by Nintendo Nyv @Nyv 09-20h Replying to @PMS_Jordan Nope, just right, Nintendo is only protecting their property Big W for Big N 1:31 PM . Mar 4, 2024 429.4K Views :

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yuzu, in its current form, will cease to exist.

www [yuzu] OatmealDome @OatmealDome yuzu, in its current form, will cease to exist. Their settlement with Nintendo prohibits any distribution of yuzu in built and source code form. Development must also stop. The yuzu website and related services will also be shut down. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco... ent injunction is entered against Defendant enjoini ees, independent contractors, successors, assigns, ol from: fering to the public, providing, marketing, ad hosting, cloning, distributing, or otherwise traffic atures of Yuzu; fering to the public, providing, marketing, ad osting, cloning, distributing, or otherwise traffickir umvent Nintendo's technical protection measur 1:13 PM. Mar 4, 2024 2.9M Views employees, independent contractors, successors, assigns, attorneys, and all third parties acting in active concert or participation with Defendant-including but not limited to any domain name registrars or registries holding or listing Defendant's Website: a. surrender, and permanently cease to use, the domain name YUZU- EMU.ORG, any variant or successor thereof controlled by Defendant or its members, and any other website or system that Defendant or its members owns or controls, directly or indirectly, that involves or harms Nintendo's Intellectual Property; and to the extent the domain is under Defendant or its members' custody or control, or under the control of registrars or registries with notice of this Order, immediately transfer the domain name YUZU-EMU.ORG, any variant or successor thereof b. aantalled he. Dafandant as its mamham and : athan makita antams that Dafandant election and to the extent controlled by Defendant or its members, the destruction by deletion of all imvention devices, including all copies Yuzu, circumvention tools used for developing or using Yuzu-such as TegraRcmGUI, Hekate, Atmosphère, Lockpick RCM, NDDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and TegraExplorer, and all copies of Nintendo cryptographic keys including the prod.keys, and all other electronic material within Defendant or its members' custody, possession, or control that violate Nintendo's rights under the DMCA or infringe copyrights owned or exclusively licensed by Nintendo. 6. The Court further orders, pursuant to 17 U.S.C. §§ 503 & 1203, upon Nintendo's election and to the extent controlled by Defendant or its members, the handing over to Nintendo of all physical circumvention devices that circumvent or attempt to circumvent the Technological

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo NEW: Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo's software encryption and facilitates piracy. Seeks damages for alleged violations and a shutdown of the emulator. NINTENDO OF AMERICA INC., V. Plaintiff, TROPIC HAZE LLC, 2. Defendant. NO. COMPLAINT JURY DEMAND PRELIMINARY STATEMENT Plaintiff Nintendo of America Inc. ("Nintendo of America Inc." or "Plaintiff""), by and through its counsel, on personal knowledge as to its own actions and on information and belief as to the actions, capabilities, and motivations of others, hereby alleges as follows: 1. Nintendo of America Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nintendo Co., Ltd., markets and distributes electronic video game consoles, games, and accessories developed by Nintendo Co., Ltd., including the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, and Nintendo Switch OLED consoles (collectively the "Nintendo Switch"). Nintendo of America Inc. and Nintendo Co., Ltd. are together referred to herein as "Nintendo." Nintendo also makes award-winning and beloved video games that can be played only on the Nintendo Switch, including such well- known franchises as Mario and The Legend of Zelda. Nintendo has sold over 139 million Nintendo Switch consoles (and counting), making it the third most popular video game console of all time. Defendant Tropic Haze LLC is an entity that owns, develops, and operates "Yuzu," a video game emulator for Nintendo Switch games. A video game emulator is a piece of software that allows users to unlawfully play pirated video games that were published only 3:31 PM Feb 27, 2024 4.3M Views . 13. Defendant and its agents are fully aware of the use of Yuzu by others in performing circumvention, and in facilitating piracy at a colossal scale. As to circumvention, Yuzu's website acknowledges that the Nintendo Switch's decryption keys (the prod.keys) are required to decrypt games and includes links to software that unlawfully extract those keys from the Nintendo Switch.2 As to piracy, for instance, one recent major Nintendo video game, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, was unlawfully distributed week and a half before its release by Nintendo. Infringing copies of the game that circulated online were able to be played in Yuzu, and those copies were successfully downloaded from pirate websites. over one million times before the game was published and made available for lawful purchase by Nintendo. Many of the pirate websites specifically noted the ability to play the game file in Yuzu. Defendant's development and distribution of Yuzu to the public materially contributes 2 See Quickstart Guide, Yuzu, https://yuzu-emu.org/help/quickstart/ ("Dumping Decryption Keys") (accessed February 21, 2024). Case 1:24-cv-00082-JJM-LDA Document 1 ... to and induces those third parties to infringe the copyrights in Nintendo's games. Defendant is thus secondarily liable for the infringement committed by the users to whom it distributes Yuzu. Filed 02/26/24 Page 6 of 41 PagelD #: 6

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