I didn’t think emulators were copyright infringement since they’re built from scratch. Why isn’t GitHub telling them to get fucked?
Why isn’t
GitHubMicrosoft telling them to get fucked?They don’t wanna be sued. Emulators are technically legal but Nintendo likes to abuse every loophole in the book to argue otherwise.
If anyone can afford the lawyers and has an incentive to challenge Nintendo, surely it’s Microsoft……
What’s their incentive?
A little good press for GitHub to offset all the bad press from downtime.
This is good press for GitHub. Corporations are their customers, not us. They want to show how friendly and easy to work with they are to corporations.
I don’t see an incentive for them here.
Maybe we could build a distributed Github you can’t just delete with something decentralized and versioning, like Hypercore protocol or IPLD (InterPlanetary Linked Data), Ceramic Network?
About legality: that’s (japanese) Nintendo using US media laws gone rogue to swipe repos on a US hoster (Github). Maybe don’t use a US hoster next time.
And yeah, Europe isn’t much better there.Github =/= git.
Just stop using Github already.
I know Nintendo=bad, but also, if their only leg to stand on is “these are distributing our keys” then just don’t include the keys. Plenty of others don’t.
I feel like all these repos knew their days were numbered because of that that, but they probably didn’t care. It’s easier to get everyone from one place than to look around online for the keys separately. May as well include the keys until Nintendo does something about it.
They don’t include the keys. Their argument is stretched really thin. They’re saying that because it can use prod.keys that are obtained illegally then the program is legal. They phrase this implying that getting these keys is always illegal, which it’s not.
If emulators are not illegal, why Microsoft take them down? This should be illegal, the same way information was censored in COVID times.
I hate big tech.
It’s not because they’re emulators, it’s because they’re including Nintendo’s cryptographic keys.
Where? Where are they? Point to the file. Oh wait you can’t because they’re not there.
