“GitLab received a DMCA takedown notice,” it confirmed.
  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    5·
    8 个月前

    To be expected. Honestly I don’t know what they expected, directly cloning and working on the very same emulator Nintendo shutdown a few days prior. They should have taken their time, reorganize, remove problematic stuff and documentation, and create a complete new identity with different branding. If anyone wants truly work on this emulator, they should think about a good approach. And maybe wait until Nintendo does not sell the console anymore.

    (Edit: After reading the reply, this paragraph can be answered with “no”. I got it flipped and it’s actually Yuzu that did not require firmware.) And is it true that suyu did not need any product keys anymore and an empty file would be enough to play all games? That’s even worse for Nintendo, because that makes piracy even easier.

    People call me a Nintendo fanboy and yuzu hater. It’s the opposite, I’m a Yuzu player (almost daily) and don’t like Nintendo anymore. And it saddens me to see how incompetent some people go with this topic.

    • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
      9·
      8 个月前

      I’m not sure where you heard that info about the keys, but it’s not right at all. In fact, suyu went the ryujinx way and makes you provide all the keys and the firmware yourself, whereas yuzu only required the keys.

      Suyu has done a lot to remove the problematic code and restructure their documentation. It would do well for people criticizing them to first go see what they’ve done. The suyu devs themselves said that the DMCA request didn’t even come from Nintendo, it came from gitlab automatically because they forked a repo that was taken down.

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        1·
        8 个月前

        Maybe I got it the other way and Yuzu did not require. Did a quick research and seems like the opposite, maybe the person I was listening to (or read, honestly don’t remember the source) got it twisted?? I’m sorry for my misinformation and will edit my above reply. I did not know this and always installed firmware, title.keys and prod.keys.

        The suyu devs themselves said that the DMCA request didn’t even come from Nintendo, it came from gitlab automatically because they forked a repo that was taken down.

        That would sound plausible, if it wasn’t that much delayed from the actual takedown of original Yuzu. If this is true, then they will probably work on Suyu elsewhere.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    8 个月前

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Nintendo might not need to individually sue emulators out of existence to drive them deeper underground.

    Today, GitLab cut off access to Nintendo Switch emulator Suyu, and disabled the accounts of its developers, after receiving what appears to be a scary email in the form of a DMCA takedown request.

    “GitLab received a DMCA takedown notice from a representative of the rightsholder and followed our standard process outlined here,” spokesperson Kristen Butler tells The Verge.

    Instead, as you can see in the email above — one of several being shared in Suyu’s Discord and published earlier by Overkill.wtf — whoever sent the takedown request is trying to piggyback on how Yuzu allegedly violated DMCA 1201 by circumventing Nintendo’s technical protection measures.

    GitLab didn’t immediately answer a question about whether it’s company policy to disable user’s accounts before giving them the opportunity to delete their projects or file a DMCA counter-notice.

    About an hour ago, its leader wrote “I’m most certainly going to host a copy of the code.” By that point, another member had already cloned the repository to git.suyu.dev.

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