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Nintendo emulator 'Suyu' removed from Gitlab following DMCA request

by brandrick on 3/21/24, 7:43 PM with 35 comments

  • by ipaddr on 3/21/24, 8:42 PM

    "In addition to the project page being removed, all of the accounts of those who have contributed to the Suyu project have also been locked."

    So Gitlab is worse then github when it comes to dmca requests.

  • by rjzzleep on 3/21/24, 8:27 PM

    This is quite fascinating, I was pulling the repo on github as i read this and the download was killed as I was cloning.

       error: RPC failed; curl 56 Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
   error: 6100 bytes of body are still expected
   fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
   fatal: early EOF
   fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

  • by TillE on 3/21/24, 8:34 PM

    > Suyu unlawfully uses unauthorized copies of cryptographic keys

    I thought that's not true, and that was the major change Suyu was making to avoid legal trouble.

  • by RockRobotRock on 3/21/24, 10:19 PM

    The end result is someone hosting a gitea server in Belize.

  • by anotherhue on 3/21/24, 8:43 PM

    The D in DVCS stands for centralised.

  • by ChrisArchitect on 3/21/24, 10:08 PM

    Related from just yesterday:

    First beta of Nintendo Switch emulator Suyu goes live

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39766138

  • by johncoltrane on 3/22/24, 6:16 AM

    Is that a surprise to anybody?

    Well, the developers use a distributed VCS so they can still work on the project, exchange patches, etc. only with less publicity, which is a good thing when you work on legally dubious stuff.

  • by amne on 3/22/24, 7:09 AM

    I don't get it how that letter can stand? Quoting from the first paragraph:

         | ... namely Suyu uses unauthorized copies of cryptographic keys to decrypt
     | unauthorized copies of Nintendo Switch games ...
    Shouldn't the "unauthorized" word be proven true before this kind of letter is thrown at the wall to make sure it sticks? Not in this world apparently

  • by roastedpeacock on 3/22/24, 3:47 AM

    Anyone know if GitLab has a transparent archive of DMCA notices similar to GitHub?

  • by aaomidi on 3/22/24, 11:32 AM

    I’ve always thought that countries like Iran who want to piss off the US should just offer git hosting for these types of projects.

    Heck offer Pirate Bay domains too.

  • by bj-rn on 3/21/24, 10:33 PM

    Maybe they should use a service outside the land of the free like codeberg.org

  • by ur-whale on 3/22/24, 6:39 AM

    Centralized infrastructure at its very best.

  • by yellow_lead on 3/22/24, 6:11 AM

    Still up here: https://git.suyu.dev/suyu/suyu

    Fuck Nintendo