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[–] [email protected] 86 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is it 100% confirmed now that the DMCA is from Nintendo themselves? I find it weird that they'd go after (initially small) forks when Ryujinx exists.

The Suyu team also hosts their code under https://git.suyu.dev, so I wouldn't exactly call it dead (yet).

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

There is no confirmation that this came from Nintendo, nor does it list the actual infringing parts like a normal takedown request should.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean, if you're going to scream "I'm doing this!" as loud as you can, it's not a surprise when you get noticed.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

That was the intention. Even the name Suyu is to bring more eyes

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Now I need to consider Gitea and Codeberg. Thanks for the reminder GitLab.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Don't use Gitea, use Forgejo - it's a hard fork of Gitea after Gitea became a for-profit venture (and started gating their features behind a paywall).

Codeberg has switched to Forgejo as well.

Also, there's some promising progress being made towards ActivityPub federation in Forgejo! Imagine a world where you can comment on issues and send/receive pull requests on other people's projects, all from the comfort of a small homeserver.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

ActivityPub integration on git remote repos sounds very interesting. Thanks for sharing that, I'll definetely take a look at Codeberg/Forgejo.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Can't wait for forge federation, it's super annoying that I need an account for each individual instance just to report a bug

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What features are paywalled?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

From here:

  • SAML
  • Branch protection for organizations
  • Dependency scanning (yes, there are other tools for this, but it's still a feature the open source version doesn't get).
  • Additional security controls for users (IP allowlisting, mandatory MFA)
  • Audit logging
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

None?

If you need action runners you have to ask for them which is fair as it's expensive.

If you self host it's all free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This sadly isn't true anymore - they now have Gitea Enterprise, which contains additional features not available in the open source version.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They're required to take down content following a DMCA takedown request. It's up to the uploader to counterclaim if they're so inclined, at which point they're able to put it back up.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Just torrented it out of spite. I don't even care about the system...I own one and I don't play it because they got the A and B buttons backwards (that's a joke)

Edit: also, everyone should see this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

they got the A and B buttons backward

I can't tell if you're joking or what

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I have permanent Xbox brain, so I'd say they made an oopsie daisy even though I grew up on SNES

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

What is arguably even more egregious is having X/Y backwards. On a graph, X is the horizontal axis, Y is the vertical axis. Xbox got it right.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why TF would you put it on gitlab instead of hosting your own forejo instance?

I swear, some people are just too eager to get in headlines rather than thinking things through.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

if you put it on gitlab, you're not the one getting sued when they take it down

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I am more saying it's not surprising Gitlab would take it down.

For example. With yt-dl /github they immediately went to a self hosted Gitlab instance. It wasn't simply a hasty move to the public Gitlab instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

For all the free publicity when it gets taken down. They were probably hosting it six different ways already

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

No one wants Nintendo's wrath. Who can blame them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

They already have their own Forgejo instance at git.suyu.dev

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Not too surprising but still disappointing regardless. Self-hosting is the only way to go for this.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Another, even better way is IPFS.

Regulators can take down your self hosted site. They cannot take it down if everyone has a piece of it (IPFS).

Works just like torrents do. Spread it out, and no one can stop it.

Still selfhosted, kind of, but by everyone.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If someone needs the name of the next fork, I'd suggest "Yutu". (or Ettu)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Still mad it isn't named 2zu

At least it seems suyu has devs now though

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

another one will rise no doubt, either they use a platform that doesn't care for DMCA's or they play the whack-a-mole game with the enforcers

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] onlinepersona 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We need federation of sourceforges FFS.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've been seeing for a while comments like yours that put a license link at the end of the comment. Can you explain to me the benefits of doing that or is it makes any difference? If I'm not mistaken the content posted on a Lemmy instace adheres to the license that the instance is using.

[–] onlinepersona 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It's purely for commercial AI on my end. Researchers have gotten LLMs to spit out their training data: street addresses, medical data, entire comments, and of course licenses.
Some countries are still deciding whether commercial LLMs are infringing on copyright by training on copyrighted material without approval, others have already decided. I think the major economical zones that will impact legality will be the USA, EU, and China.

Until a decision has been made, I'll continue adding the "free for all except commercial use" license.


Also, copyright is very complicated. If you copy an entire article from a newspaper and paste it into a post on a lemmy instance, which license does it have? That of the newspaper or that of the lemmy instance? If it's the former, then what's the difference if it comes from your brain and not a newspaper? Would it make a difference if the comment were written first on a blog and then copied to lemmy? If it's the latter, then what's the point point of the newspaper or the author ever copyrighting it somewhere else if it can just be overridden?
Next question regarding copyright, since comments are copied and stored on different servers, who would then own the copyright? The lemmy instance sending the comment or the one receiving it?

I'm not a lawyer and probably things aren't clear cut. Might be one in one country and a different thing in another.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (10 children)

My understanding of the Creative Commons licenses is that they are for providing permission to people to use something that they wouldn't be able to otherwise, due to copyright or other issues. I don't think the licenses are capable of limiting what people can do with something if it's already the wild west, or do I have that wrong?

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