▲ 1019 ▼ Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 302 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] conti473@thelemmy.club 1 point 2 years ago (3 children) Forks get deleted when and if it comes so far permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] BlackSam@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not if you "fork" it locally by doing git clone --mirror and doing git push newOrigin --mirror 😉 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) And refactor the code a bit to be on the safe side - change the name of the project and remove any references to litigious companies. And use an anonymous handle + VPN/proxy chains so they can't sue you. Honestly it boggles my mind that devs contribute to emulators like these using identifiable names and traceable IPs, when everyone knows how these greedy corporations operate. Did no one learn anything from the Sony vs Geohotz case, or all the subsequent takedown against emulators? Why do these devs keep falling into the same trap again and again? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent [–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago Not if you fork locally or outside Github. Surprise! Yes, there's lots more Git outside Github. As one commenter said, Github is to Git what Pornhub is to porn. permalink fedilink source parent [+] paholg@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BlackSam@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not if you "fork" it locally by doing git clone --mirror and doing git push newOrigin --mirror 😉 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) And refactor the code a bit to be on the safe side - change the name of the project and remove any references to litigious companies. And use an anonymous handle + VPN/proxy chains so they can't sue you. Honestly it boggles my mind that devs contribute to emulators like these using identifiable names and traceable IPs, when everyone knows how these greedy corporations operate. Did no one learn anything from the Sony vs Geohotz case, or all the subsequent takedown against emulators? Why do these devs keep falling into the same trap again and again? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) And refactor the code a bit to be on the safe side - change the name of the project and remove any references to litigious companies. And use an anonymous handle + VPN/proxy chains so they can't sue you. Honestly it boggles my mind that devs contribute to emulators like these using identifiable names and traceable IPs, when everyone knows how these greedy corporations operate. Did no one learn anything from the Sony vs Geohotz case, or all the subsequent takedown against emulators? Why do these devs keep falling into the same trap again and again? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago Not if you fork locally or outside Github. Surprise! Yes, there's lots more Git outside Github. As one commenter said, Github is to Git what Pornhub is to porn. permalink fedilink source parent