Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns

Post by bonzini » Sat, May 04, 2024, 8:26 AM UTC

SllX wrote: post #23

langsoul-com wrote: post #10

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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.

Read up on Sony vs Connectix. This is basically FUD. Yuzu is cooked but that doesn’t mean all emulation of Nintendo consoles is. The Yuzu devs settled, and among the allegations in Nintendo’s filing was that they, the developers themselves, engaged in piracy.

Post by Mindwipe » Sat, May 04, 2024, 8:32 AM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #47

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #25

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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).

if we had a github-like system outside of the US, would Nintendo be able to do anything since the DMCA does not apply?

Post by iforgotpassword » Sat, May 04, 2024, 8:40 AM UTC

oefrha wrote: post #71

ekianjo wrote: post #45

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git is decentralized by design. you dont need bittorrent.

No. With BitTorrent, I can tell a client to go fetch this torrent or hash (magnet link) and it can do that without any specific hardcoded server. Centralized trackers help but there’s always the DHT. With git you need to give the client an exact host, which can be gone for any number of reasons.

Post by isodev » Sat, May 04, 2024, 8:42 AM UTC

omeid2 wrote: post #72

isodev wrote: post #59

> In keeping with its developer-friendly approach and branding, the Microsoft-owned platform... Yes, because Microsoft has the other side where they take everyone's code and then repurpose it as a "coding aid as a service" kind of thing (copilot) without attribution or even permission in the first place.

That cat got out of the bag when Google was allowed to gobble up all copyrighted content to operate a commercial service without paying the copyright holders. If you can demonstrate genuine benefit to society --of course, beyond mere access to copyrighted material-- even if during the course of a commercial enterprise, copyright does not apply.

Post by lll-o-lll » Sat, May 04, 2024, 8:45 AM UTC