{"rewrite":{"id":"r_3145ac7405dc5e6ada26a321","clusterId":"c_ea48cadeb630d921eda37c01","slug":"nintendo-targets-picofly-switch-modchip-firmware-in-github-dmca-notice","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Nintendo Targets Picofly Switch Modchip Firmware in GitHub DMCA Notice","summary":"Nintendo sent GitHub a DMCA takedown notice dated November 6, 2026, targeting the Ansem-SoD/Picofly repository, which hosts information and firmware for a Switch modchip built on the Raspberry Pi RP2040. Nintendo argues the firmware circumvents the console's boot sequence and cryptographic signatures, violating the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions. GitHub published the notice on November 10 and disabled a network of 144 repositories.","whyItMatters":"Nintendo's enforcement on GitHub has moved from emulator repositories to the modchip firmware that lets the hardware load unofficial code, and the 144-repository sweep shows the company is treating forks of a single target as part of the same violation.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe notice, dated November 6 and published by GitHub on November 10, names only the parent Ansem-SoD/Picofly repository for removal. Nintendo told GitHub that most of the forks infringe copyright as well, and the entire network of 144 repositories is now disabled. Visiting the repository returns a message that it is unavailable due to a DMCA takedown request.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNintendo\u0026#39;s argument rests on the boot sequence and cryptographic signatures it describes as the Switch\u0026#39;s technological protection measures. The firmware, it says, lets a modchip bypass those measures and run illegal copies of Switch games. Other modchip firmware repositories remain on GitHub.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"GitHub disabled 144 repositories from a single Nintendo notice, so the Picofly firmware takedown reaches past one modchip repo to every fork and mirror attached to it.","twitterPost":"Nintendo's Picofly notice took down 144 GitHub repositories, not one. The firmware's forks and mirrors are the target.","threadsPost":"Nintendo's DMCA notice names the Picofly firmware for circumventing the Switch boot sequence and cryptographic signatures, and GitHub disabled 144 repositories. One filing against one repo reached a whole network of forks and mirrors.","newsletterBlurb":"Nintendo sent GitHub a DMCA takedown notice dated November 6, 2026, targeting the Ansem-SoD/Picofly repository, which hosts firmware for a Switch modchip built on the Raspberry Pi RP2040. Nintendo argues the firmware circumvents the console's boot sequence and cryptographic signatures. 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