A single DMCA anti-circumvention notice, sent by Nintendo on the one-year anniversary of its 2024 lawsuit against Yuzu, showed just how much things can change in a year. Targeting nine repos linked to Switch emulator Ryujinx, the domino effect led to the removal of 4,238 repos. Elsewhere, the distilled components of Yuzu’s demise can be found in recent takedown notices
My repo is fine, because its not online. Keeping them online is just silly.
I host my own gitlab instance.
Same. Super easy to do, easy to mirror repos, easy to keep offline…
Even if its online (gitlab.melroy.org), I own my data. And GitHub or any other company can’t decide for me when to remove content.
Never give Nintendo money.
I can’t wait for federated git prs/issues.
How does that change Nintendo’s legal proceedings?
You can ignore a DMCA request. It’s not “do this or go to jail.” It’s a finger-wag that gives you a free out, where they can’t sue you if you do the thing. You can just… not… and then they’d have to go to the trouble of suing you. Which you can make difficult by being somewhere besides America and not giving a shit.
Federation doesn’t allow you to ignore DMCAs, not hosting in the US does. Federation has absolutely no impact on DMCA’s functioning.
Federation allows redundancy.
It doesn’t. But code becomes p2p with no one organizer.
Do you know about Radicle ? It’s not federated but distributed and darknet based
I want to give it a shot at some point! It just looks complicated
I t has imporved a lot lately you should :)
The AUR page for ryujinx is still up and the upstream repo still works.
I hacked my Switch right after Nintendo pulled that Yuzu BS, so it’s been jailbroken for one year now and the last time I gave any money to Nintendo was in May 2023 for Tears of the Kingdom. I recently updated it to the newest firmware in preparation for Xenoblade Chronicles X this month. No updated emulators? No problem!
https://github.com/Ryubing/Ryujinx is still there as well as https://git.citron-emu.org/Citron/Citron (formerly Yuzu), the 2 main repositories for these 2 emulators.
So yeah, “easily killed” 4238 unimportant repos, not even getting the main ones, lol.
P2P code repo when? Git needs to die in 2025
Git is significantly better than the alternatives. Don’t conflate git and GitHub, they’re entirely different.
do you mean github or do you actually mean git?
Isn’t git technically already P2P? Everyone has the complete repo, and everyone can pull from everyone else, as long as a connection can be established. The networking/organization of this is just not automatic.
Yes, this maximal decentralized usage where everybody has their own copy but can collaborate and pick and choose from other copies was a central idea in the creation of git. Ultimately it was made for Linux Kernel development and that is how that works over there.
You do not even need to use git specific protocols. One can simply import patch sets and mail them to each other.
https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/Bittorrent-like_features/ – Use IPFS as a special git-annex remote, and it will be nearly impossible to execute a take-down.
If you have other “decentralized filesystems” that have “better” behavior than IPFS, you might see if joeyh or yourself can add them as other special remotes.
There is also Radicle that is building a darkgit with p2p distributed design
I’m not sure how I like at protocol being the thing that makes this happen, but I’m glad others are working on the issue! Maybe I’ll change my mind later but it’s still to close to a million dollar company for my taste
Git was made to work decentralized and repositories are trivial to mirror.
