They should really self host their own codeberg instance
EDIT: looks like they do now! https://git.suyu.dev/suyu/suyu
Why codeberg over forgejo or others?
Codeberg is the forgejo software i just forget how to spell forgejo and i like the name codeberg way more
Hopefully they can find a new home. I am ashamed of GitLab. I used to love it but they get worse and worse by the day. Maybe Codeberg would be a better home. Nintendo can’t kill this, there will always be new places to host software and it’s open source.
It’s absolutely ridiculous they took it down even though Nintendo didn’t DMCA the Suyu project directly. Shitty corporate cover-our-ass behavior at its finest.
I am ashamed of GitLab.
Don’t be. Gitlab has to comply with the law.
It’s the law that’s broken, not Gitlab.
It’s absolutely ridiculous they took it down even though Nintendo didn’t DMCA the Suyu project directly.
Um, no. If shitty corpo X (ab)uses the DMCA to send you a takedown notice for some project and you also host a fork of the same project, you must take down the fork too.
“You see, while this might be the exact same code, the name is totally different, so we don’t have to take it down!” will not hold up in court.
Whether the DMCA request is valid or not is an entirely separate question. You must still comply or open yourself up to legal liabilities.
The process to object to the validity of the request is included in the screenshot.
DMCA hurts more than it serves
This law should be struck down.
I am sure majority of people will benifit from this.
Except yuzu wasn’t dmca’d out? The devs took it down themselves
In the screenshot it says that Gitlab received a DMCA request.
The included DMCA request is specifically about suyu. It sounds to me like someone forked suyu and are receiving a notice about its takedown. Not that suyu is getting a notice about yuzu’s takedown, if that was the case the request would be about yuzu.
This. It’s frustrating how many uninformed people decude to just run their mouths
Removing open source code from the Internet just isn’t possible
Unfortunately, it’s possible if the project is small. Also, even if it’s big, people will be left with clones in different states and of different times, and it will require some coordination to put everything in order again.
So to sum up, people will be forced to waste time, which also may be the goal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have to think people have stored stuff in a blockchain somewhere. I wonder what the response to that is.
It is if everyone’s too scared of getting sued to host it publically
There’ll always be a way to get hold of the source but I’m not sure I’d trust some rando on some hidden back alley of the internet not to have messed with it somehow
There’ll always be a way to get hold of the source but I’m not sure I’d trust some rando on some hidden back alley of the internet not to have messed with it somehow
That’s what hashes are for.
Same problem though where do you get a trustworthy hash
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Looks like they’re hosting their own repo now as a result;
@sirsquid I’m really sick of copyright fascists
Suyu has to be an ironic name right?
Hot potato!
So they’re saying that since Suyu forked Yuzu, it also contains some cryptographic keys from the Switch, which is the docs violation? Didn’t something similar happen to the dolphin devs?
This isn’t about copyright, it’s about whether the software’s purpose is to break DRM. Ninty argued that Yuzu’s primary purpose is to enable copyright infringement which is forbidden under the DMCA; both infringement of course but also even just building tools to enable it. The latter is the critical (and IMHO insane) part.
Now, all of that is obviously BS but Ninty SLAPPed Yuzu to death, so it doesn’t matter what’s just or unjust; they win. God bless corporate America.
Oh for fucks sake
I’ve actually spent about $2500+ on switch and games, haven’t pirated a single game, I just play the old nes and snes roms via emulation.
I can say, due to Nintendo’s behavior I will never buy another nintendo console or game. I might even start with this Suyu emulator now and moving forward.
No company should ever attack its community this much, and aggressively. They are making piles of cash, and this is just toxic.
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