After suffering a severe blow after the leak of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo he wants to shield himself The Japanese video game company took legal action against Switch emulators, stopping the illegal spread of its products.
Nintendo specifically seeks to curb lock pick, a system that allows users to extract unique game keys for Switch, he explains the specialized portal GBA Temp. Obviously, the ROMs can then be used for PCs.
The Japanese company sent a cease and desist letter arguing that Lockpick uses the keys infringing its intellectual property rights. This represents a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of the United States.
A potential copyright violation
Behind Lockpick is the team of developers from Skyline, who issued a statement via his discord.
“It is with great sadness that we bring you this news. Nintendo has issued a copyright complaint against Lockpick which will probably go into effect this Monday, with Lockpick being a fundamental part of legally transferring Switch keys.
“Nintendo claims that this circumvents their copy protection (TPMs), and therefore violates their copyrights,” the developers stress. “We are in a position where that we are potentially violating your copyright, to continue developing our project, Skyline, by dumping keys from our own Switches.”
Golpe a Nintendo: filtrado The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
For Nintendo, the last few weeks have been traumatic, then for complete filtration to occur of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom little by little for its official launch for the Switch platform.
The event occurred after some physical copies of the video game were delivered ahead of time to various users. Someone was in charge of extracting the digital files of the title, sharing them on the network.
The official release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be this Friday, May 12.
