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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There are law firms that work on contract specifically to do this work. And it's not like the senior partner is doing it repo by repo, it's a junior paralegal searching GitHub for "yuzu.cpp" or whatever and filing one big takedown request for all the results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Hmm I smell another "DeCSS" coming along...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

If there hadn't already been a court ruling-ish (it is complicated) giving Nintendo the "right" to do this? Sure

As it stands? It very well could be an intern filling out a word document