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I thought this was going to be all Nintendo emulators, thankfully it is only yuzu (switch emulator) related.
For now, Nintendo won the lawsuit against Yuzu, on grounds of piracy. Given how most emulators can allow playing pirated games, the others might be next.
I thought this was going to be all Nintendo emulators, thankfully it is only yuzu (switch emulator) related.
For now, Nintendo won the lawsuit against Yuzu, on grounds of piracy. Given how most emulators can allow playing pirated games, the others might be next.
The Yuzu devs settled, and among the allegations in Nintendo’s filing was that they, the developers themselves, engaged in piracy.
I wonder if there’s a “git over BitTorrent”. Having a cryptographically signed (by authors, not by GitHub) and fully open source git hosting network would be a boom for FOSS security in general.
I thought this was going to be all Nintendo emulators, thankfully it is only yuzu (switch emulator) related.
They're DMCA'ing code they have no right to DMCA - it was released under a permissive OSS license. Sure they own the copyright but they also gave everyone a license to distribute it. Adhering to these fraudulent DMCA requests endangers all of OSS.
I wonder if there’s a “git over BitTorrent”. Having a cryptographically signed (by authors, not by GitHub) and fully open source git hosting network would be a boom for FOSS security in general.
(Not as a rhetorical question; I don’t quite understand your vision, so I’m hoping you’ll clarify the usage.)
I thought this was going to be all Nintendo emulators, thankfully it is only yuzu (switch emulator) related.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're DMCA'ing code they have no right to DMCA - it was released under a permissive OSS license. Sure they own the copyright but they also gave everyone a license to distribute it. Adhering to these fraudulent DMCA requests endangers all of OSS.
Nintendo aren't using the DMCA takedown process for copyright-infringing material (the thing people normally mean by DMCA). They're sending letters to GitHub about how Yuzu is, in their view, a tool for circumvention of technological protection measures and therefore illegal in itself (under different provisions of the DMCA).
The whole "technical protection measures" clause is in my view the most atrocious part of the DMCA, more so than the actual copyright stuff - because this communicates that the state is not just ok with vendors using their devices against their own users but actively endorses and encourages it.
This is basically the legal basis for Doctorow's "war on general computation".
I wonder if there’s a “git over BitTorrent”. Having a cryptographically signed (by authors, not by GitHub) and fully open source git hosting network would be a boom for FOSS security in general.
The article mentions that emulators “illegally circumvent Nintendo’s technological protection measures and run illegal copies of Switch games.”. But which law makes it illegal to circumvent such systems? And what about Wii-only emulators? Surely they have nothing to do with the safety systems of the Switch.