Submitted 8 hours ago by iamthetot@piefed.ca to games@lemmy.world
Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.
There is such news article every few months and yet no relevant (Eden, Ryubing) are down.
I bet it’s a PR stunt but I have no idea who it could be aimed at.
Nintendo: Part time game company Full time law firm
Emulators are legal as long as you don’t ship keys or weird shit, if GitHub takes them down even when no law was broken, then use another provider, GitHub is Microsoft and runs like shit.
mfw i made a switch emulator but i host it on corpo run repositories.
As a general reminder, self hosting your own git repo or hosting it on a private VPS is incredibly cheap. You can then have it cloned to new github/bitbucket whenever these sweeps happen. Using a fork as a ‘backup’ is pointless if it’s still hosted on Github no matter how many thousand copies are made. Microsoft will throw you and everyone in your commit history under a bus at the whims of Nintendo’s lawyers.
You self host gitlab-ce to avoid dmca’s from mega corps.
I self host gitlab-ce so that no one can see all of my shitty commits.
We are not the same.
I set up my own Forgejo instance a few days ago, it took me longer to upload my repositories than to set it up, although I went with docker so one could say I cheated by taking the easy way. In any case, if you have some old hardware laying around or already rent a server anyway, give it a try.
When you cut off one head of the Hydra three more will take its place
Been using Eden and it’s been flawless so far
They never learn not to use GitHub.
At this point you assume a Nintendo DMCA and/or lawsuit or you are a moron. I know several of these groups are using private gits.
A new Yuzu or is this including old ass news? Yuzu was the first major one to get taken down, which prompted hella people to fork it into a billion different spin offs.
I’d assume some useless fork that wasn’t renamed or active. Or a redundant secondary mirror.
The active Switch 1 repos are all self hosted now.
Even if they use the console keys, that shouldn’t be violating anything. You need a legit key and you can dump your own from a legit console just like the games. But DMCA takedowns are notoriously easy to abuse, and Nintendo is one of the biggest abusers of the system, using it to remove things that don’t actually violate any copyrights.
Any mirrors out there?
until we can stop this 👇, that 👆will continue to happen.
I don’t understand. Is it a problem that people are buying the game through the proper channels?
We should all stop buying games and instead pirate all of them. That’ll make game companies make more games for sure!
I didn’t read it as a call for piracy so much as a call for boycotting a shitty company. People are pretty bad at that though.
Not me, but that’s mostly cause I’m poor and enjoy the n64 too much to bother with some newfangled version, lol.
BeerStainedBunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 minutes ago
My games were digital so I don’t know how I would be able to make my own rom for emulation and I’m not really interested in giving Nintendo more money