Nintendo Files Lawsuit Against Yuzu Software Developer for Game Piracy

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Nintendo has filed a civil lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the developer of Yuzu software, for enabling illegal piracy of the upcoming game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The lawsuit claims that Yuzu unlawfully bypasses the security measures of the Nintendo Switch console, allowing users to download and play Nintendo games without paying.

Nintendo filed a civil lawsuit on February 26 against Yuzu software developer Tropic Haze , claiming that the team’s tech let folks illegally pirate 2023’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom over one million times a full week and a half before it even came out. According to the Mario maker, the harm caused by this software was “manifest and irreparable.

” Filed in the United States District Court of Rhode Island, the suit (that was viewed by Kotaku) claims that Tropic Haze’s Yuzu “unlawfully circumvents” the measures the company has in place by “executing code necessary” to bypass many of the technologies associated with the Nintendo Switch console and its games. As the Mario maker put it, Yuzu decrypts Nintendo Switch game files using an “illegally-obtained copy” of production keys that are secured on the console itself. These keys are then passed around on illegal websites, giving anyone and everyone the means to download and play the company’s games on systems outside of the handheld-console hybrid without spending a single cen

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