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Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.

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[-] Funwayguy@lemmy.world 133 points 1 day ago

As a general reminder, self hosting your own git repo or hosting it on a private VPS is incredibly cheap. You can then have it cloned to new github/bitbucket whenever these sweeps happen. Using a fork as a 'backup' is pointless if it's still hosted on Github no matter how many thousand copies are made. Microsoft will throw you and everyone in your commit history under a bus at the whims of Nintendo's lawyers.

[-] artyom@piefed.social -1 points 5 hours ago

You may not want to do that for the same reason Microsoft doesn't wasn't to do that.

[-] Funwayguy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Capitulating to Nintendo's lawyers only serves to silence individual rights to reverse engineer, repair, or modify devices consumers have legal ownership of, which Microsoft also has a commercial interest in abusing. Keep in mind that a DMCA request is not evidence of wrong doing, however few have the legal resources to contest it.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 1 hour ago

Microsoft's interests are not being sued. If you wanna take on that responsibility, have at it. Most people don't for the sake of video games.

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 97 points 1 day ago

You self host gitlab-ce to avoid dmca’s from mega corps.

I self host gitlab-ce so that no one can see all of my shitty commits.

We are not the same.

[-] Einhornyordle@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

I set up my own Forgejo instance a few days ago, it took me longer to upload my repositories than to set it up, although I went with docker so one could say I cheated by taking the easy way. In any case, if you have some old hardware laying around or already rent a server anyway, give it a try.

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