Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.

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[–] 130 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    You may not want to do that for the same reason Microsoft doesn't wasn't to do that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    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.

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