Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks
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Bruh what?
I chose the highest-profile and arguably best emulators for each major system, let alone that almost every other modern one uses GitHub too. If all of these emulators are flying under the corporate radar, I will deliberately inject myself with rabies and die a slow, agonizing death. I couldn't come up with this shit if I got cross-faded on meth and fentanyl. -
We are literally in a thread about a takedown in GH. But if you go to other sites, they have the repo up.
Suyu, Nuzu, Uzuy, Torzu, and Sudachi have all been taken down. Youtube-dl got taken down until public outcry. The number of takedowns since 2022 have only increased over the years. 2024 being the highest amount.
I'm glad the repos above are not yet being taken down, I truly am. But GitHub is just Microsoft at the end of the day.
We are also on platforms (Lemmy/piefed) that have chosen codeberg over GitHub for their main git hosting.
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Emulation itself doesn't constitute piracy.
Now, it does facilitate it because all you need is a ROM from any source.
But saying emulators should be prosecuted would be the same as arguing that Steam's Proton should be banned because you can launch pirated games through it.
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I can't wait for federation with codeberg/forgeo. PRs from different instances sound great. Git is already set up. It will hopefully be a game changer.
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Show me how this happening to Nintendo.
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Yah cuz they use them on official hardware hahaha
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Emulation isn't piracy and you're allowed to back up physical games you own. That's legally your right.
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If that’s the limit of your knowledge, I can’t help you. Read more on the subject maybe.
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Technically, you're allowed to make copies for personal use unless doing so requires bypassing DRM, encryption, or some other lockout mechanism.
Emulation is still not piracy and neither is making a personal backup, but if making that backup requires anything more than a standard disc drive or a cart reader then it is a DMCA violation.
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Codeberg can suffer from the same DMCA requests but at least is not managed by Microsoft.
To really avoid(or ignore) DMCAs you need to self-host/use a vps for your own version control tool like Forgejo/GitLab or use a decentralized one like Radicle. -
What gives them the right to take down emulators? It's just code someone wrote that happens to be able to interpret bytes from a switch cartridge?
Why wouldn't they take down a company like analogue for example for making a hardware level gameboy emulator?
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Didn't tears of the kingdom got pirated in like 1 week within release? That must have affected sales in some degree
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Sorry I accidently insulted your mother or something
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Lots of theoreticals and assumptions. Not seeing any evidence here.
I also find it laughable that you want to compare Nintendo to some scrappy artist. Piracy does not impact everyone the same way.
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Nah… I suspect that Sony simply doesn’t want to anger hackers again. The cost of downtime is likely to be higher than the imaginary profits they get from harassing emulator communities. I doubt they think their reputation is worth much but maybe they have started to see some value on it.
Japanese gaming companies often don't seem to understand the value of the reputation / honor which is really weird considering that it's one of the things japanese culture is supposed to value.
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Emulation = online piracy
Did I say that? I did not. I said the game was pirated in 1 week which it definitely happened unless everyone who emulated it was using it legally.
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I have no issue with emulating games. But I also have no issue of a company trying to stop their games from being emulated.
This was literally your starting argument.
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I'm not that person you're referring to tho
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The patents on the Game Boy hardware expired years ago, so that's what gives Analogue the right to do what they do. As for these Switch emulators, I have no idea, but I'll guess it's just Nintendo trying to scare people without their own legal departments into complying.
