• Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I don’t think this is nintendo’s doing.

      “We have determined that you forked a public repo against which we previously received a DMCA notice.”

      From the email from gitlab, this sounds like gitlab being overly cautious and removing all forks themselves.

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      7 months ago

      Not really. They get big headlines to scare people off and make it more difficult for casual people to get started. They don’t need to make it impossible for everyone, just impractical for most.

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    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    After a first release, GitLab have already pulled down the Nintendo Switch emulator suyu, due to a DMCA hit as a result of it being forked from yuzu which Nintendo shut down.

    Even though the suyu team were doing it as a non-profit, with no way to donate, it seems this didn’t matter because it’s based on a project that was already taken down.

    The suyu Discord is also no longer accepting invites, probably due to an influx of people wondering what’s going on.

    A few people managed to grab the notice that was sent to the suyu team like Mr. Sujano on X:

    Since yuzu was open source though, Nintendo will have plenty of trouble fully erasing it, since even a very quick Google search showed up plenty of it still existing on the web across various places.

    I’ve reached out to GitLab for more info…will update if they reply.


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    7 months ago

    That “Require all keys to be user provided, along with firmware” didn’t really help did it.