Today adds a new chapter to the soap opera of emulators. In case you haven’t heard, a few weeks ago Nintendo decided to sue Yuzu’s development team. Yuzu (Switch), Citra (3DS), DraStic (NDS) and many other emulators have decided to stop their projects to avoid a big evil.
However, since the fall of Yuzu, console emulation has not been illegal as such, and other projects have been born that start from the same source code. One of them was Suyu, but it’s a project that’s already dead and even had time to be born from the ashes, why? Because even though Sue had already returned from the other side, he said “goodbye” when he was removed from the platform by Gitlab.
GitLab will remove the repository for copyright infringement even if they did it due to external pressure
Without any announcement and without Nintendo needing to file a new lawsuit, GitLab announced that it was removing the Suyu project from the platform in addition to disabling the developers’ accounts. The Yuzu-based Nintendo Switch empire has only been around for two weeks, so it hasn’t had time to make any updates.
According to GitLab, they received an email asking them to take down the project for violating the DMCA (Digital Age Copyright Act of the United States). In light of this, GitLab decided to implement its review protocol to ensure that DCMA policies are violated (or not violated). They proceeded to kill the project as the suit came back positive. however, This decision has a very thorny backgroundSo we list below-
First, because GitLab doesn’t say who made the authentication request (although it’s thought to be Nintendo). Additionally, GitLab received an email saying that the breach originated from a fork of the Suyu project that received a DMCA notice. This is only a problem if the Yuzu code rights belong to someone (Nintendo). It was an open source project..
Second, the email GitLab itself received is, at the very least, threatening. Suu and responsible are identified, but also GitLab suggests that it cooperates with piracy. The latter does not work either head or tail.
Third, because the email constitutes a violation of DMCA 1201, which includes safeguards against illegal trafficking of protected material. however, DMCA 512 is enabled., which covers cancellation requests. Also, Suyu developers have already stated that they are not using the same circumvention measures as Yuzu and are not distributing games or anything like that.
Finally, when GitLab decides to ban the suit, developers are not given the opportunity to delete the project without their account being affected. Yes, you gave them 24 hours to remove it, but then they blocked everything and that was that.
GitLab is just taking care of itself, but Suu has found a new home
With the whole of the past in mind, The Verge team consulted two legal experts to determine the validity of all these decisions. Everyone agrees that DMCA 1201 and DMCA 512 are not the same, so the decisions are wrong.
However, you’ll also agree that it doesn’t really matter because a platform like GitLab doesn’t have to deal with anything you don’t want. It doesn’t seem like a good idea to waste time and money rejecting an invalid DMCA measure to protect something they have no interest in protecting. Plus, it would be pointless to do so when you know Nintendo won’t hold back from filing a new lawsuit. In other words, GitLab decided to look at the back.
Now how does the suit fit into all of this? At the GitLab level, the account is deleted and developers will not be able to upload other projects. However, Suyu’s head did not say where it had arrived, but said he would soon host a copy of the code. Meanwhile, another member of the team has locked the repository to git.suyu.dev.
Yes, Suyu is still alive. And if you want to try it on Android, here we leave the download link for the first APK packages for Android:
