Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8,000 emulator-related DMCA takedowns
Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8,000 emulator-related DMCA takedowns
WTF - That's a lot of repos... -.-
Remember what happened when TPB was "taken down"...good luck Nintendo, until you end your shit practices pirates will exist.
Only problem here is that the repos in question are all hosted on a corporate service beholden to these ridiculous laws.
Like, I'm sure there are other places hosting emulators, but in this particular case.
Serious question, why pirate at all? If you (general you, not you specifically) don't like Nintendo's practices don't buy Nintendo games. Period. Just like if you don't like what Musk / Tesla is doing, you don't buy Tesla. (Yes, I went with a car example, and I know it's a very stupid comparison, but that's what popped in my head, maybe because of "You won't download a car" thing).
Nintendo isn't the only one making kid / family friend games. Indie devs are filled with those (i.e if you don't like what other big publishers are doing). Leave Nintendo, and buy those game, so that they can keep making more games. Boycott Nintendo / Pokémon. Why keep yourself attached to their IP?
I am not saying this as a mod here. Just curious about it. We all have limited time, so if we don't like a specific company, why waste time on their product (paid or pirated), when we can spend that on someone else's game that will benefit with more people playing there games. And indie / small devs are make so much good stuff right now.
P.S: This is specifically about pirating Nintendo games because of not liking their practices, cause people have been pirating all kind of games, even from small indie devs, from pretty much the beginning, so not discussing those right now.
P.P.S: Sorry, on rereading, it kind of feels like a rant, but I have already written it, so just going to post it :-)
Because Nintendo makes good games? Because they want to relive an experience they had when they were younger? Or simply to play something that they missed when they were younger? Nintendo makes great games that are almost all reviewed highly, it's just their legal side that is so shitty. When I'm playing a game it isn't charity to the dev who made it. It's because I want the experience that the game is offering. Nintendo has made (and still offers) some unique and high quality experiences through their games.
Because bits of culture like games can lack cultural equivalence even in the most similar example. And because Nintendo is so bad at being the stewards of this culture that the best way to experience it is only possible illegally.
And you can argue that it's not Nintendo's job to be a steward of cultural artifacts, but they are indeed cultural artifacts whether Nintendo treats them that way or not and good stewards will find their way to it.
Then, in my opinion, the moral choice for how to consume the content is via its best steward. If that choice results in less money being put back into the development of similar artifacts maybe the developer needs less power (money) with which to shape the cultural landscape.
Why pirate? Off the top of my head...
There are dozens of reasons, and saying anyone with a critique of Nintendo should be required to boycott them is extreme. You can be critical of a company and still enjoy their products. How else do we get better products in the future if we don't share feedback?
While I can't really answer your question as I wonder that myself, I have noticed that there exists a surprisingly big amount of people that will just continue buying/pirating and playing games that they generally just hate and games in series that they have hated every game in for over a decade.
Sims and Pokemon have some of the biggest offenders in this from what I have seen. Like in the Sims 4 community you can see people complain and complain about how much they hate the latest expansion and how much the hate Sims 4 and how they are never playing Sims 4 again. And when the next expansion comes out they are there again same thing, just hate hate hate... but they keep playing.
Same in the Pokemon community some people haven't liked a singel game in the franchise sense the 90's but they keep playing and keep complaining over and over again with every new update.
This is such a wierd concept to me, why do you keep spending time and money on something that you dislike so much. Like I get buying a game and not like it and being disappointed it it, that'slife sometimes, but I really don't get buying/playing every game in a franchise or every expansion when you haven't liked it for years.
I bought a Switch near launch, but I think I'll opt to instead wait to emulate the Switch 2 to spite them.
When you remove one emulator that makes money, it’s because of money. Yuzu code will not be lost, but keeping a healthy community after DMCA will be hard.
But when you close 8,000 repositories, it’s a kick in the hardware preservation community. The simple fact it’s possible to do this is frightening.
Emulators in themselves are legal. The people who develop the emulators aren't responsible for how a person obtains the ROMs. It makes more sense to punish the repositories storing pirated games, not the emulator developers.
Gotta catch 'em all!
A wild fork appears :)