Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for over 8,000 GitHub repositories hosting code from the Yuzu Switch emulator, which the Zelda maker previously described as enabling “piracy at a colossal scale.”
WTF - Rest in peace… I hope no one has to pay any legal fees. Wish you all the best!
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.
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.
Hmm I smell another “DeCSS” coming along…
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