Developers report receiving DMCA takedown notices regarding a widely-used tool for making Switch games run in emulators.
on Twitter, who attempted to fork the Lockpick repository on Github . Aaron received a copy of the DMCA request sent to GitHub over Lockpick and Lockpick_RCM, though there may be other projects affected. At the time of writing,remains accessible on GitHub, though GBAtemp notes that there could be a grace period before the site acts on any takedown requests.
Lockpick has been around for some time, and it's hard to see the move as anything other than the publisher striking out at the Switch modding and emulation community in response to the two week-early leak of Tears of the Kingdom, the highly anticipated next installment of The Legend of Zelda series.
Dumping your own games and emulating them is legal, it's just any subsequent distribution of those files that's legally actionable. Nintendo argues that Lockpick undermines its copyright and security measures, while Lockpick has a legitimate place as a tool for dumping one's own Switch games for emulation, often resulting in superior performance to what you get on the original hardware.
They also sent dmca to people who were hosting prod.keys in github. Here's mine must have accidentally forked it long time ago. pic.twitter.com/bPWJDRQoJyWhatever the potential legal defense you could make for Lockpick, it's unlikely the team behind it has any practical recourse in the face of this takedown request. At the same time, there are countless other untold instances of Lockpick out there in the wild already, and new solutions will inevitably spring up.
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