Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for over 8,000 GitHub repositories hosting code from the Yuzu Switch emulator, which the Zelda maker previously described as enabling “piracy at a colossal scale.”

WTF - Rest in peace… I hope no one has to pay any legal fees. Wish you all the best!

  • verdigris@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Stop using GitHub. Especially if you’re working on anything that corpo interests will frown on, but just generally, there are plenty of alternatives (both git and non-git) that aren’t owned by Microsoft.

  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    7 months ago

    I hope this doesn’t spread out towards other emulators just as a matter of “principle” (by Nintendo’s definition)

  • Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    As the article mentions, they’re releasing the Switch successor soon. I suspect the real reason for this push is to try and scare people off from developing an emulator for that one, at least during the lifetime of the console - it’s a bit late to try and kill Switch emulation given that nearly fully-functional emulators already exist.

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Is there a p2p based equivalent?

    I don’t even know how would that work, but seems something that would fit here.

    • Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      I mean, the alternative is Ryujinx, which Nintendo has for some reason ignored for now.

      (Ryujinx’s devs are much more cautious about things like banning any references to piracy in their discord and avoiding anything that could look like getting money in exchange for access, both of which may have given them less legal exposure.)