Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.
Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.
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.
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.
You may not want to do that for the same reason Microsoft doesn’t wasn’t to do that.
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.
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.
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.