Switch Emulator Suyu Hit By GitLab DMCA, Project Lives on Through Self-hosting

Switch emulator Suyu -- a fork of the Nintendo-targeted and now-defunct emulation project Yuzu -- has been taken down from GitLab following a DMCA request Thursday. But the emulation project's open source files remain available on a self-hosted git repo on the Suyu website, and recent compiled binaries remain available on an extant GitLab repo. From a report: While the DMCA takedown request has not yet appeared on GitLab's public repository of such requests, a GitLab spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that the project was taken down after the site received notice "from a representative of the rightsholder."

git clone

[bill_mcgonigle]

https://git.suyu.dev/suyu/suyu... [suyu.dev]

Sneakernet

[TwistedGreen]

Better grab it before the lawyers make another false DMCA request against their hosting company.

Eventually you'll have to send a self-addressed stamped envelope and a blank CD-R to the developers and wait for them to send it back to get a copy of the repo.

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[Tybor]

I guess they will also need to go into the "deep web" (see https://geti2p.net/en/blog/post/2020/03/06/git-over-i2p )

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[GameboyRMH]

It would also help to switch from regular git to radicle:

https://radicle.xyz/ [radicle.xyz]

Appropriate

[The Cat]

Su yu is the name?

Sue you?

Brilliant.

Funny lawsuity names

[cstacy]

Su yu is the name? Sue you? Brilliant.

I always wondered about the iconic Mac sound named "Sosumi". Turns out there's a video about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

Remember this the next time you buy something

[iAmWaySmarterThanYou]

If this sort of thing bothers you, vote with your wallet. Nothing else will get noticed.

Re: Remember this the next time you buy something

[drinkypoo]

That won't get noticed anyway, Nintendo profits are mostly based on moms buying consoles for kids because they scream.

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[Osgeld]

yup, exactly why we have one, its only my second Nintendo console in my life, and I never get to even touch it

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[iAmWaySmarterThanYou]

So make it the last one.

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[Osgeld]

too late, we already had a second daughter

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[Z80a]

It might work with nintendo (if it was possible to beat the fanbase), but most companies are immune to voting with the wallet because they try to make the shareholders happy, rather than having the biggest profit possible.
This in many cases means chasing stupid trends, or just pointing the marketing department at the shareholders rather than trying to sell a product.

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[iAmWaySmarterThanYou]

Profit = happy shareholders. Why do you think they'd care about anything but profit which is the direct cause of long term stock price increase?

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[Z80a]

Because they're gullible human beings that can be affected by marketing.
"We're doing trendy shit X" will give boosts to the market value, even if the actual profit suffers.

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[iAmWaySmarterThanYou]

Have you ever bought or sold a stock?

Investors buy based on past performance and the company's projected future earnings. It's math.

No one but the tiniest sub fraction of morons buys a stock because they saw an ad about anything.

The very concept is ridiculous. The vast and overwhelming bulk of stock buys/sells are automated trades by huge hedge funds and 401k funds done by computer.

Jfc... where do you people get this shit from? You must make it up in your heads and believe your own nonsense.

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[Z80a]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

The rightsholder?

[Torodung]

Don't they have copyright over their own software? Were they distributing someone else's? Did they include proprietary libraries that they don't have the rights to?

Suyu is GPL. I'm pretty sure they declared their copyleft here. What on Earth is Git doing?

Yes, I'm playing coy. But if they're not distributing copyrighted game applications to run on the emulator, they are very much the rightsholder, and Git knows this.

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[tlhIngan]

Honestly, Nintendo doesn't usually their DMCA announcements anonymous. They like to publicize things as a general warning to others.

It could be just a general grifter who's angry Suyu ripped out "all the good bits" of Yuzu and is basically banning any discussion of copyright infringement.

Yuzu folded because while they may be against piracy, there was a lot of the *wink* *wink* behind it - between the Discord chats of people playing leaked games to the Twitter posts (at the time) of how Yuzu was the "best wa

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[kurkosdr]

Nintendo didn't accuse YuZu and SuYu of copyright but violation of the anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA. In other words, YuZu didn’t get hit with a DMCA copyright takedown notice but a DMCA circumvention-of-DRM notice. There’s a big difference between the two.

Also, it's worth noting that YuZu and SuYu didn’t/don't provide keys but a decryption mechanism that takes keys as input. Does this violate the anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA? Nintendo thinks it does, YuZu and SuY