Last month, Tropic Haze, the creator of the Yuzu emulator for the Switch console, received a lawsuit from Nintendo, which claimed that Yuzu “facilitates piracy on a colossal scale.” The two sides have now reached a mutual agreement for a monetary settlement and a permanent injunction. Tropic Haze will pay Nintendo $2.4 million.

Tropic Haze has been granted a permanent injunction from offering or selling Yuzu or any of its source code in the future, following a ruling by the District Court of Rhode Island.

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Its members are also prohibited from creating any future software that circumvents Nintendo’s technical protections, and Tropic Haze must hand over all site domains and information related to the emulator.

This permanent injunction is enforceable by court order, and any violation by Tropic Haze or its members will subject them to the full scope of the court’s contempt powers, including punitive and monetary penalties.

In its original filings, Nintendo argued that last year’s biggest Switch release, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, was pirated more than a million times in a week and a half in May.

With Yuzu in hand, there’s nothing stopping a user from getting and playing bootleg copies of almost any Nintendo Switch game, all without paying a dime to Nintendo or any of the hundreds of other developers and publishers who make and sell Nintendo Switch games .

In essence, Yuzu turns ordinary computer devices into tools for mass infringement of the intellectual property of Nintendo and other copyrighted game developers and publishers.

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