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Nintendo has just issued multiple DMCA takedown requests to GitHub
- IntelMiner 3y agoEvery time I hear about Nintendo doing something I'm reminded of a thing a friend said "Nobody hates Nintendo more than Nintendo fans"
- sosodev 3y agoThe saying is the other way around, isn't it? "Nobody hates Nintendo fans more than Nintendo"
- nunuvit 3y agoSpoken like a true Nintendo fan.
- LocalH 3y agoNintendo loves consumer fans. Nintendo hates technically knowledgeable fans.
- nunuvit 3y agoBeing technically knowledgeable doesn't compel you to publish things that undermine their business.
- circuit10 3y agoThis tool is designed for dumping keys on your own Switch, which requires paying Nintendo for the console and the game
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- nunuvit 3y agoIndeed. You can't publish a tool designed to defeat copyright protection any more than you can publish the copyrighted material itself. Hence the dmca takedown request.
- markus_zhang 3y agoJust don't save on GitHub then. Find multiple places and maybe somewhere in countries Nintendo cannot touch.
- circuit10 3y agoThe main concern is that if this is found to be illegal then that could be an issue for emulation. A Switch emulator for Android called Skyline shut down because of this
- ChuckNorris89 3y ago>Just don't save on GitHub then. They should use P***Hub instead
- mmh0000 3y agoBut then us Utahans would be blocked from access =(
- CM30 3y agoI wonder how many issues would be fixed if it was explicitly made legal to break copy protection in all cases? Honestly, it'd be nice if at least one rich person/large company/group of tech companies just flat out campaigned for full rights to anything you buy, and got the law changed for the better, regardless of much money was needed in lobbying, ads, etc.
- dtx1 3y agoNintendo are litigious fucks.
- jacooper 3y agoUse a host outside the U.S. like Codeberg.
- zinekeller 3y ago> Use a host outside the U.S. This might work if the location is chosen carefully... > like Codeberg While Codeberg e.V. have demonstrated principles, Codeberg would likely to lose in German courts. Remember that this is the same legal system that ordered a German hosting company to order removal of youtube-dl's homepage (it's not even the code itself). In fact, I'm confident to say (based on the word of the law and the actual cases that have happened) that Germany's equivalent of DMCA is significantly more strict than the DMCA itself.
- iinnPP 3y agoI just had a thought that could potentially work against DMCA, but am admittedly not super knowledgeable so perhaps someone from HN can verify the validity of the idea. Given certain genres of software being more prone to DMCA than others, would it be at all possible to backup these software in a non-distributable manner and potentially even hidden if required where the distribution is tied to the DMCA notice? When the notice to Github or similar is given, the backup backs up to yet another service before opening distribution to the DMCA'd content. The backup service waits the legally allowed time to also remove this backup at which time the tertiary service goes live. Could this be used for malicious compliance against malicious actors?
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- kobalsky 3y agoMaybe this is related to the fact that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was leaked before launch and emulators are already being worked on to make it run properly.
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