Well, that didn't last long did it. After a first release, GitLab have already pulled down the Nintendo Switch emulator suyu project, due to a DMCA hit as a result of it being forked from yuzu which Nintendo shut down.
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.
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.
Don’t be. Gitlab has to comply with the law.
It’s the law that’s broken, not Gitlab.
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
This. It’s frustrating how many uninformed people decude to just run their mouths
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.