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Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep
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May the forks live on. Also people seriously need to consider Radicle. - https://radicle.network/
Comment on Hacker News · 2 direct repliesThe outcome was obvious. Anyway, the team behind Yuzu is still at large and the development will continue elsewhere, from aside, like in older days of emulation. Not everything has to default to GitHub, and not everything can.
Comment on Hacker News · 2 direct repliesEvery single Switch 2 emulator is still available on Github and Gitlab. And just checked most Switch 1 emulator is still available too because they are not hosted on Github but rather on self hosted repos with their own domains. Not that it matters because they will be back next week either way. The only surprising thing is the PicoFly firmware but that's such a niche. Most peope who have a chipmodded Switch never touch that.
Comment on Hacker NewsI thought I had the right to use circumvention procedures to back up my own games. If I own game and run it on an emulator with a firmware extracted from my device, what law am I breaking?
Comment on Hacker News · 2 direct replies> ... This process protects Nintendo’s copyright-protected video games Does Nintendo use LLMs to write games? AIUI, LLM output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. I guess maybe there's an argument for their older catalog.
Comment on Hacker News · 1 direct repliesIn the long term, the only way for them to fight this is streaming video games. But even then AI can be used to recreate gameplay from video material..
Comment on Hacker News · 4 direct repliesWhen will people learn to stop putting Nintendo emulators on GitHub?
Comment on Hacker News · 2 direct repliesThat makes sense if their hardware is so bad that it's not a strong enough differentiator.
Comment on Hacker Newsthe discourse on this stuff has really gone downhill. that said... 17 years ago, there was this guy who thought suing college students for pirating music was righteous, as it was the RIAA's only real recourse to enforce their rights. now he is president of the greatest copyright violating institution in all of history. it is really unfair to go and point at the end user and say, "cognitive dissonance." the polite way of saying that someone is a moron. because the harvard and stanford dropouts leading these near $1T valuation companies, well, they changed their minds for money. to me, flip floppers are also morons. or perhaps, nobody's a moron. at the end of the day, piracy will lead to less Crysis titles and more Monopoly Go and Roblox brainrot, so time will tell if culturally we are better off.
Comment on Hacker News · 1 direct repliesOn the one hand game preservation is a wonderful thing, a gift to humanity. It's the reason why I can play Eternal Sonata today on my computer in 4K instead of never again probably. On the other hand, it's fucked up people are playing Ocarina of Time for free 2 days after launch. What's the answer here?
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