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:'''Outcome:''' Settlement. Both Citra (also under the same team and LLC) and Yuzu's online presence and development is discontinued. Tropic Haze was ordered to pay Nintendo $2.4m, retire from developing Yuzu or assisting Citra with development, issue statements denouncing emulation (in public) and claiming any emulation that deals with AES keys is illegal, and submit personal Switch hardware. See [[Yuzu#Lawsuit]].
::Also, roughly 8K repositories have been wiped[https://twitter.com/antique_codes/status/1785777982495453298][https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/04/2024-04-29-nintendo.md].
::suyu, a fork of yuzu continues from where that project left off on GitLab instead of Github suggested by the community due to potential takedown attempt. However, GitLab still took down the suyu repository due to the use of raw yuzu code. As a result, the suyu team use their own repository. Although their discord channel forced to shut down due to a court order[https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1c39xed/suyu_project_freeze_and_court_order/], killing the project. Another fork of yuzu, Sudachi emulator discord channel shut down[https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/11/24127545/discord-suyu-sudachi-server-shutdown-account-ban]. Provenance [[Multi-system_emulatorsFrontends#Integrated_emulator_types|multi-system emulatorfrontend]] received a DMCA takedown notice[https://twitter.com/provenanceapp/status/1785776471174176898]. See [[Nintendo Switch emulators#Comparisons]] section.
====Pressured====
*[https://aftermath.site/pokemon-lawyer-cease-desist-fan-project-pikachu-movie Aftermath - What I Do: Pokémon’s Former Chief Lawyer On Shutting Down Fan Games & Honeymoon Business Deals]
*[[Wikipedia:Right_to_repair|Wikipedia - Right to repair]]
*[https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/master Github Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received]
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