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- nintendo@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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Any mirrors out there?
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.
They never learn not to use GitHub.
Serious question for the seriously uninformed: what’s the alternative?
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. It’s not even currently the most feature complete emu; one of the Ryujynx forks is.
I’d assume some useless forks that weren’t renamed or active. Or redundant secondary mirrors.
The active Switch 1 repos are all self hosted now:
Ryujinx continuations:
https://git.ryujinx.app/projects/Kenji-NX
https://git.ryujinx.app/Ryubing
Yuzu continuations:
https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden
Edit: i think suyu fork is maybe dead.
I’m surprised Nintendo isn’t going after all the Switch 2 slopulators or static recompiles yet. I don’t think they violate DMCA because they work differently, not decrypting anything or using keys, but it’s Microsoft in the USA.
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 slow to rectify abuses of it, while Nintendo is one of the biggest abusers of the system, using it to remove things that don’t actually violate any copyrights.
The issue is the whole “circumventing encryption” thing, which is what led to the infamous win for Nintendo. The judge ruled that by using an official Switch’s encryption keys, the emulator was primarily designed to circumvent encryption and sided with Nintendo.
I agree that it shouldn’t be violating anything. But clearly, Nintendo managed to convince that judge. And since courts look at precedent and case law when issuing rulings, any future rulings will likely go the same way unless a higher court overturns it.
Have a link to that case? I can’t seem to find anything related
Unfortunately, the settlement with Yuzu set a dangerous precedent. The judge decided that since Yuzu requires the keys to play the games, then Yuzu is clearly “primarily designed to circumvent encryption to directly violate the DMCA” or whatever.
So Switch 2 emulators not using keys at all in any part of the process maybe protects them from that angle. They require decrypted games, so only the decrypting/dumping tools might be susceptible to takedown in the same way.
Yuzu settled out of court didn’t they?
Plus nintendo only swooped in after yuzu released an update optimising for an game not yet released - destroying any kind of clean room argument.
I see Github takedowns in a similar light to Google YouTube strikes. There’s no humanity or any attempt at defending creators, just spineless or bot corporate actions. Usually bots.
A fool uses Github for spicy code now. Like a 14 year old recompiling OOT with Claude from what I hear.
