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It's amazing to me that everyone even slightly disliked by the ruling class isn't doing this. Like remember when Nintendo took down a bunch of Switch emulators.

by immibis 11mo ago

It's amazing to me that everyone even slightly disliked by the ruling class isn't doing this. Like remember when Nintendo took down a bunch of Switch emulators... from GitHub? Why were they primarily on GitHub?

undeveloper 11mo ago
Technically emulators are not against the law, piracy is against the law. And given that open source projects are all on github, it makes sense for them to just be on github That said, there are many forks of the projects DMCA'd still floating around.
- immibis 11mo ago
  They don't have to be against the law - they just have to annoy powerful people.
  - undeveloper 11mo ago
    notably, the yuzu emulator and the associated team disbanded because they had a stash of every game released for the switch and were sharing it. that's plainly illegal, morality aside. of course they got hit with the DMCA
zamadatix 11mo ago
GitHub is a great, free as in $, and convenient place to be. So long as they weren't ONLY on GitHub (they weren't, the source code is still around) they can get the best of both worlds before and after. The deeper problem for the Switch emulators was letting their personal life be linked to it so Nintendo could seek legal pressure against them directly.
- immibis 11mo ago
  If you host on any mainstream site, you can expect they're recording your IP address, your ISP is recording who has that address, and both of them will rapidly give it up to anyone who seems official or legally scary enough.
  - zamadatix 11mo ago
    One as the content provider can still use the same kinds of methods such as ToR to browse clearnet hosting sites without limiting the content consumers to only accessing the content via a .onion link. It's the same thing as the original comment except in reverse. The only downside is you may lose the popular/easy distribution method if it gets taken down. The alternative is to just declare it lost day 1 though, so there is only a gain to be made in leeching a hosting site like GitHub while you can.

by immibis 11mo ago

undeveloper 11mo ago

Technically emulators are not against the law, piracy is against the law. And given that open source projects are all on github, it makes sense for them to just be on github That said, there are many forks of the projects DMCA'd still floating around.

immibis 11mo ago
They don't have to be against the law - they just have to annoy powerful people.
- undeveloper 11mo ago
  notably, the yuzu emulator and the associated team disbanded because they had a stash of every game released for the switch and were sharing it. that's plainly illegal, morality aside. of course they got hit with the DMCA

zamadatix 11mo ago

GitHub is a great, free as in $, and convenient place to be. So long as they weren't ONLY on GitHub (they weren't, the source code is still around) they can get the best of both worlds before and after. The deeper problem for the Switch emulators was letting their personal life be linked to it so Nintendo could seek legal pressure against them directly.

immibis 11mo ago
If you host on any mainstream site, you can expect they're recording your IP address, your ISP is recording who has that address, and both of them will rapidly give it up to anyone who seems official or legally scary enough.
- zamadatix 11mo ago
  One as the content provider can still use the same kinds of methods such as ToR to browse clearnet hosting sites without limiting the content consumers to only accessing the content via a .onion link. It's the same thing as the original comment except in reverse. The only downside is you may lose the popular/easy distribution method if it gets taken down. The alternative is to just declare it lost day 1 though, so there is only a gain to be made in leeching a hosting site like GitHub while you can.