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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

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[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 1 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

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.

[–] nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

P2P code repo when? Git needs to die in 2025

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 1 points 25 minutes ago

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.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 10 points 4 hours ago

do you mean github or do you actually mean git?

[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 22 points 5 hours ago

Git is significantly better than the alternatives. Don't conflate git and GitHub, they're entirely different.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 5 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] anti_antidote@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Never give Nintendo money.

[–] Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago

Oh I made that decision decades ago

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 16 points 8 hours ago

The AUR page for ryujinx is still up and the upstream repo still works.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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!

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 35 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

My repo is fine, because its not online. Keeping them online is just silly.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I host my own gitlab instance.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Same. Super easy to do, easy to mirror repos, easy to keep offline...

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I can't wait for federated git prs/issues.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

How does that change Nintendo's legal proceedings?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 2 points 20 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

Federation doesn't allow you to ignore DMCAs, not hosting in the US does. Federation has absolutely no impact on DMCA's functioning.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 points 7 hours ago

It doesn't. But code becomes p2p with no one organizer.

[–] Lemmist@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Just stop feeding them. Nintendo is bad, mkay? And their games are mediocre at best.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Kinda hard to say when they're some of the most pirated games ever... But okay.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 15 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'd play a mediocre game for free that I wouldn't pay for, what is your point exactly?

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 8 points 9 hours ago

You haven't, but okay, you do you.