indicate that the gaming company wants to squash the emulator, and for good this time.
Nintendo is requesting the Federal Court stop Yuzu and its makers, Tropic Haze, dead in its tracks with a permanent injunction. The demands don't stop there either; It also wants the court to take away is domain names, URLs, chatrooms, and social media presence, effectively wiping our the emulator's existence.Not only that, Nintendo also want Tropic Haze to hand over the Yuzu domain, yuzu-emu.
It's no secret that Nintendo has a reputation for being one of the most litigious, but unsurprisingly, many believe the gaming company's actions are a step toward the extreme. The idea and concept of a game emulator is a gray area for many; many defenders of the emulator say running some software through Yuzu is a legitimate use that doesn't require breaking Nintendo's encryption or software copyrights.
On that note, Nintendo will also need to prove to US court that the Switch emulator is 'primarily designed' to give people access to official Nintendo Switch games. In which case, Yuzu may find itself in hot water, on account of a DMCA circumvention claim, which bans products “primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access”.