Nintendo sent GitHub four DMCA notices this week, all dated November 6, 2026. By Kotaku's count , about 217 Switch-related repositories are now disabled.

I've been writing PHP for more than 13 years, and I have no stake in Switch modding. What caught my eye was how many of those 217 repos were forks. That part matters to anyone who builds software on top of someone else's code, which these days is all of us.

What actually happened

TorrentFreak reported first on the biggest notice. It targets Picofly, open-source firmware for a Switch modchip built on a cheap RP2040-Zero board. Nintendo argues that the console's boot sequence and cryptographic signatures are "technological protection measures", and that the firmware lets modchips "illegally circumvent" them.…