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GitLab takes down Nintendo Switch emulator suyu due to the DMCA
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Hopefully they can find a new home. I am ashamed of GitLab. I used to love it but they get worse and worse by the day. Maybe Codeberg would be a better home. Nintendo can't kill this, there will always be new places to host software and it's open source.
It's absolutely ridiculous they took it down even though Nintendo didn't DMCA the Suyu project directly. Shitty corporate cover-our-ass behavior at its finest.
Don't be. Gitlab has to comply with the law.
It's the law that's broken, not Gitlab.
Um, no. If shitty corpo X (ab)uses the DMCA to send you a takedown notice for some project and you also host a fork of the same project, you must take down the fork too.
"You see, while this might be the exact same code, the name is totally different, so we don't have to take it down!" will not hold up in court.
Whether the DMCA request is valid or not is an entirely separate question. You must still comply or open yourself up to legal liabilities.
The process to object to the validity of the request is included in the screenshot.
DMCA hurts more than it serves
This law should be struck down.
I am sure majority of people will benifit from this.
Except yuzu wasn't dmca'd out? The devs took it down themselves
In the screenshot it says that Gitlab received a DMCA request.
The included DMCA request is specifically about suyu. It sounds to me like someone forked suyu and are receiving a notice about its takedown. Not that suyu is getting a notice about yuzu's takedown, if that was the case the request would be about yuzu.
This. It's frustrating how many uninformed people decude to just run their mouths