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GitLab takes down Nintendo Switch emulator suyu due to the DMCA (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[-] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 69 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hopefully they can find a new home. I am ashamed of GitLab. I used to love it but they get worse and worse by the day. Maybe Codeberg would be a better home. Nintendo can't kill this, there will always be new places to host software and it's open source.

It's absolutely ridiculous they took it down even though Nintendo didn't DMCA the Suyu project directly. Shitty corporate cover-our-ass behavior at its finest.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 74 points 3 months ago

I am ashamed of GitLab.

Don't be. Gitlab has to comply with the law.

It's the law that's broken, not Gitlab.

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.

[-] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

DMCA hurts more than it serves

This law should be struck down.

I am sure majority of people will benifit from this.

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Except yuzu wasn't dmca'd out? The devs took it down themselves

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

In the screenshot it says that Gitlab received a DMCA request.

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

This. It's frustrating how many uninformed people decude to just run their mouths

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 20 points 3 months ago

Removing open source code from the Internet just isn't possible

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 20 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately, it's possible if the project is small. Also, even if it's big, people will be left with clones in different states and of different times, and it will require some coordination to put everything in order again.

So to sum up, people will be forced to waste time, which also may be the goal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

I have to think people have stored stuff in a blockchain somewhere. I wonder what the response to that is.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

It is if everyone's too scared of getting sued to host it publically

There'll always be a way to get hold of the source but I'm not sure I'd trust some rando on some hidden back alley of the internet not to have messed with it somehow

[-] seathru 8 points 3 months ago

There’ll always be a way to get hold of the source but I’m not sure I’d trust some rando on some hidden back alley of the internet not to have messed with it somehow

That's what hashes are for.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Same problem though where do you get a trustworthy hash

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