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Nintendo has said that The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom was pirated over a million times in the weeks before its official release. The claims form part of a lawsuit Nintendo has filed against Tropic Haze, who developed the popular Switch emulator Yuzu. Yuzu allegedly allows gamers to play pirated Switch games on Windows, Linux, or Android systems with Tropic Haze “fully aware of the use of Yuzu in facilitating piracy at a colossal scale”. “Yuzu turns general computing devices into tools for massive intellectual…

The creator of popular Switch emulator Yuzu is the target of Nintendo's latest anti-piracy lawsuit, with the gaming giant claiming in its suit that "there is no lawful way to use Yuzu to play Nintendo Switch games." The lawsuit, picked up by Game File's Stephen Totilo, is seeking "equitable relief and damages" from Yuzu creator Tropic Haze, alleging that the emulator unlawfully circumvents its copyright protections, knowingly "facilitating piracy at a colossal scale."As part of the suit, Nintendo points…

Meta AI logo is seen in this illustration taken September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File photoAI models are becoming more sophisticated due to the quality and cache of data they are trained on. However, training models on data, especially the protected one, may have its consequences. Google, Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Facebook parent Meta, at some point in the last year, have been criticised for 'stealing' data. Meta, for one, seems to have run into a lot of legal troubles for using copyrighted data to…

Users who watch pirated content such as movies, web series, TV shows, and video games online are in danger! HP Wolf Security has discovered a new malware campaign called ChromeLoader, which is infecting users with harmful Google Chrome extensions. The latest version, known as ChromeLoader Shampoo, spreads through websites that host pirated movies and video games.How does this work? Hackers deceive Chrome users into downloading the fraudulent extension Shampoo, which promptly redirects the victim's search queries to…

House Of The Dragon Is The Prequel To Game Of Thrones ( Photo Credit – A Still From House Of The Dragon ) 2022 was a year of many surprising things in the realms of cinema. While a lot of fresh content made its way to the mainstream, the biggest phenomenon , The Game Of Thrones made a comeback through a prequel series called The House Of The Dragon. The prequel that had George RR Martin associated to it is a very big extent created a much bigger hype with its announcement and release. The show stood true to the hype…

US law enforcement isn't just interested in shutting down video pirates. The feds have charged two Russian nationals, Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova, for allegedly running the pirate e-book repository Z-Library. The site was billed as the "world's largest library" and held over 11 million titles, many of which were bootleg versions stripped of copyright protections. The pair was arrested in Cordoba, Argentina at the US' request on November 3rd. The American government disabled and seized the public Z-Library site at…

Booker prize-winning author Shehan Karunatilaka has asked people not to circulate pirated versions of his novel.Karunatilaka won the prize on Monday for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. In an Instagram story and a Facebook post two days after his win, Karunatilaka said it had “come to light that an unofficial and illegal” pdf version of his book was “doing the rounds on Sri Lankan social media”.Winner of the 2022 Booker prizeIn his post, titled “Do not steal the moon”, the author wrote: “The book took…

A former student who sold pirated digital copies of textbooks has been sentenced by a court in Denmark.Over a 21-month period the woman sold access to 38 different copyrighted books used in the social worker sector.An anti-piracy group referred her crimes to the country's State Prosecutor for Serious Economic and International Crime and yesterday a court determined her fate.While millions of people have no qualms about downloading music, movies and TV shows for free, there are also large numbers of students who feel…