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[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 167 points 7 months ago (8 children)

archive.org is cool and all, but a centralized service will never be a reliable way to truly archive something.

[–] ardi60@reddthat.com 64 points 7 months ago (1 children)

this repo still lives and we still have Suyu that looks promising, So, no worries atm https://github.com/pineappleEA/pineapple-src/releases/tag/EA-4176

[–] viking@infosec.pub 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Github probably didn't receive a cease and desist yet, but I doubt they'll put up a fight against Nintendo.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I highly suggest starting to familiarize ourselves with federated git repos. I‘m testing forgejo atm hoping to be able to host it publicly at some point. That way, once something is out there, its pretty much everywhere.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 7 months ago (3 children)

the issue isn't federation or anything like that, the issue is finding a repo hosting service in a dmca resilient country

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I get that. But I dont think that its possible to really dmca every fork of a repo on 20 countries without running out of resources at some point because when one fork is taken down, people will make 10 more. the important part is discoverability imo. Feel free to educate me in case this is missing a point.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago

its easy enough to send angry shit to every server, dmca and whatever rights violations they can think up, and it can become an issue.

Of course, the Federation is great, but you still need an instance that's in one of those privacy-oriented countries.

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[–] kaputter_Aimbot@feddit.de 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

-- A wild Codeberg appeared. --

Codeberg is a collaboration platform providing Git hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects.

Website: Codeberg.org


The organization selected the European Union for their headquarters and computer infrastructure, due to members' concerns that a software project repository hosted in the United States could be removed if a malicious actor made bad faith copyright claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Wikipedia: Codeberg e.V.


In June 2022 the Software Freedom Conservancy's "Give Up Github" campaign (in response to the GitHub Copilot licensing controversy) promoted Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub.

Conservancy: Give Up GitHub!

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The DMCA only applies in the US. Every other country doesn't give a shit about your DMCA request.

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[–] eratic@slrpnk.net 14 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Federated git repos doesn't mean that the source code will be replicated across instances. It just means you can do things like create tickets and pull requests across instances.

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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

At least not one that's hosted in a country where the IP mafia has any power, which is unfortunately most countries excluding places like Russia or China where you probably wouldn't want to host it anyhow due to a variety of other, uh… issues

[–] viking@infosec.pub 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As long as you host the checksums elsewhere so that users can verify the repo hasn't been tampered with, you can host files in China or Russia just fine.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

That's assuming that the only potential issue you care about is tampering though

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This isn't hard. Torrent with a seed box somewhere outside of copyright enforcement is likely the best option as a "backup" source.

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[–] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

will never be a reliable way to truly archive something

I think they're doing a damn fine job archiving something, and in reliable ways too

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I wonder if IPFS would help in this case...

Anti Commercial AI thingyCC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nothing good is allowed to exist but in shadows. Shadow archives are essential.

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[–] iliketoshare@lemmy.ml 166 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Since they're back at it again I have to jump onto my alt and re-share the fact that I totally backed up Yuzu's source code, their progress reports, their Github issues pages + pull requests, and all the latest available binaries right before it got taken off of Github. No illicit materials in my archive (ROMS/Firmwares/Keys). Freely available as a torrent.

https://lemmy.ml/post/12810167

Otherwise I wish the best of luck to the nascent Suyu project.

[–] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks. Just added this to my torrent server and will seed until the server dies

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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 99 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Nintendo brass = scumbags. Trash corpo who hates its customers except for milking their money.

It is morally good to pirate all Nintendo products, crack all their hardware, and disparage all their advertising.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Even if there's nothing by them you want to play, pirate some anyway. Seed generously.

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[–] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 52 points 7 months ago

The fuck sticks at Nintendo would love to take everything Nintendo related down for "copyright" if they could on the Internet archive.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 47 points 7 months ago

ugh FUCK OFF Nintendo

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 44 points 7 months ago

I think everyone should post Yuzu links on Twitter. The place doesn't have much moderation so it's perfect.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 37 points 7 months ago (3 children)

How does Internet Archive has so many epub books if they are restricted by DMCA? Honest question

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 44 points 7 months ago

Nobody sent a request to remove them

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 23 points 7 months ago

They turn a blind eye as long as no one files DMCA notice. They do limit downloads of some popular pirated materials behind login though.

[–] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Internet Archive operates under the principle of fair use, which allows the use of copyrighted material for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. They also adhere to legal guidelines and protocols to avoid infringing on copyright laws. Additionally, they often rely on user-contributed content, public domain materials, and works with expired copyrights to build their digital library, which helps mitigate copyright issues. However, they do occasionally face legal challenges or takedown requests, and they respond to those according to the law.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This comment smells like chatgpt.

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[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 34 points 7 months ago (8 children)

if you believe this copyright claim was made in error

It definitely was, since Yuzu doesn't break copyright....

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[–] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I bet Nintendo wouldn't think twice to request books be burned if the yuzu source code is printed on them.

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[–] furycd001@lemmy.ml 25 points 7 months ago

N I N T E N D O C A N E A T S H I T ! !

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Make a yuzu.su and host that shit in Russia.

Cs.rin.ru probably has builds on it anyways.

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[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Why is "Nintendo of America Inc." in a different font?

[–] lengau@midwest.social 18 points 7 months ago

Probably because it's a template and somebody copied and pasted without remembering to paste as plaintext

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

LMAO, get fucked Nintendo. You'll never take our archives.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I started storing program setups and driver packages as well as firmware tools on my PC.
Seems like that it was a good choice to store the Ryujinx, Citra and Xemu emulator setups...

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

Never give Nintendo money.

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