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Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not if you "fork" it locally by doing git clone --mirror and doing git push newOrigin --mirror 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Because anonymous, but performant, network infrastructure is hard to configure (for non-experts).