With a single DMCA notice, Nintendo wiped out 4,238 emulator repos on the anniversary of the Yuzu lawsuit that made such takedowns easier.
A single DMCA anti-circumvention notice, sent by Nintendo on the one-year anniversary of its 2024 lawsuit against Yuzu, showed just how much things can change in a year. Targeting nine repos linked to Switch emulator Ryujinx, the domino effect led to the removal of 4,238 repos. Elsewhere, the distilled components of Yuzu’s demise can be found in recent takedown notices
Isn’t git technically already P2P? Everyone has the complete repo, and everyone can pull from everyone else, as long as a connection can be established. The networking/organization of this is just not automatic.
If you have other “decentralized filesystems” that have “better” behavior than IPFS, you might see if joeyh or yourself can add them as other special remotes.
I’m not sure how I like at protocol being the thing that makes this happen, but I’m glad others are working on the issue! Maybe I’ll change my mind later but it’s still to close to a million dollar company for my taste
I hacked my Switch right after Nintendo pulled that Yuzu BS, so it’s been jailbroken for one year now and the last time I gave any money to Nintendo was in May 2023 for Tears of the Kingdom. I recently updated it to the newest firmware in preparation for Xenoblade Chronicles X this month. No updated emulators? No problem!
You can ignore a DMCA request. It’s not “do this or go to jail.” It’s a finger-wag that gives you a free out, where they can’t sue you if you do the thing. You can just… not… and then they’d have to go to the trouble of suing you. Which you can make difficult by being somewhere besides America and not giving a shit.
Ahh yes. The ol’ “we downloaded it because it was BAD lol” move. Classic. /s
It amazes me that you don’t see how stupid what you just said was. It’s entirely possible to have a good game where people don’t want to support the developer/platform that it’s been released for. It’s totally fine. You can have two things at once. You can admit they make some good games. That doesn’t lessen the argument that they’re fuckin’ evil.
I feel that I was very clear. If you can’t derive the meaning of something despite being led directly to the end of the puzzle, then there’s nothing I’m gonna be able to do for you. Search your feelings, Luke.
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https://github.com/Ryubing/Ryujinx is still there as well as https://git.citron-emu.org/Citron/Citron (formerly Yuzu), the 2 main repositories for these 2 emulators.
So yeah, “easily killed” 4238 unimportant repos, not even getting the main ones, lol.
Never give Nintendo money.
Oh I made that decision decades ago
The AUR page for ryujinx is still up and the upstream repo still works.
P2P code repo when? Git needs to die in 2025
Isn’t git technically already P2P? Everyone has the complete repo, and everyone can pull from everyone else, as long as a connection can be established. The networking/organization of this is just not automatic.
Git is significantly better than the alternatives. Don’t conflate git and GitHub, they’re entirely different.
do you mean github or do you actually mean git?
https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/Bittorrent-like_features/ – Use IPFS at a special git-annex remote, and it will be nearly impossible to execute a take-down.
If you have other “decentralized filesystems” that have “better” behavior than IPFS, you might see if joeyh or yourself can add them as other special remotes.
There is also Radicle that is building a darkgit with p2p distributed design
https://tangled.sh/
I’m not sure how I like at protocol being the thing that makes this happen, but I’m glad others are working on the issue! Maybe I’ll change my mind later but it’s still to close to a million dollar company for my taste
I hacked my Switch right after Nintendo pulled that Yuzu BS, so it’s been jailbroken for one year now and the last time I gave any money to Nintendo was in May 2023 for Tears of the Kingdom. I recently updated it to the newest firmware in preparation for Xenoblade Chronicles X this month. No updated emulators? No problem!
My repo is fine, because its not online. Keeping them online is just silly.
https://xkcd.com/2324/ https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/old_days_2.png
I host my own gitlab instance.
Same. Super easy to do, easy to mirror repos, easy to keep offline…
Even if its online (gitlab.melroy.org), I own my data. And GitHub or any other company can’t decide for me when to remove content.
I can’t wait for federated git prs/issues.
Do you know about Radicle ? It’s not federated but distributed and darknet based
How does that change Nintendo’s legal proceedings?
You can ignore a DMCA request. It’s not “do this or go to jail.” It’s a finger-wag that gives you a free out, where they can’t sue you if you do the thing. You can just… not… and then they’d have to go to the trouble of suing you. Which you can make difficult by being somewhere besides America and not giving a shit.
Federation doesn’t allow you to ignore DMCAs, not hosting in the US does. Federation has absolutely no impact on DMCA’s functioning.
It doesn’t. But code becomes p2p with no one organizer.
Just stop feeding them. Nintendo is bad, mkay? And their games are mediocre at best.
Kinda hard to say when they’re some of the most pirated games ever… But okay.
Downloads ≠ good
People are choosing to pirate them instead of pay for them and support the developer/publisher. ‘Good enough to play for free’ is also a statement.
Ahh yes. The ol’ “we downloaded it because it was BAD lol” move. Classic. /s
It amazes me that you don’t see how stupid what you just said was. It’s entirely possible to have a good game where people don’t want to support the developer/platform that it’s been released for. It’s totally fine. You can have two things at once. You can admit they make some good games. That doesn’t lessen the argument that they’re fuckin’ evil.
Ahh yes, the ol’ complete lack of nuance. A game isn’t good so it has to be bad.
Seems the stupidity is contagious around these parts considering you go on to showcase situations of nuance. Engage brain please.
I’d play a mediocre game for free that I wouldn’t pay for, what is your point exactly?
I feel that I was very clear. If you can’t derive the meaning of something despite being led directly to the end of the puzzle, then there’s nothing I’m gonna be able to do for you. Search your feelings, Luke.
You haven’t, but okay, you do you.