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immibisyesterday at 9:32 PM1 replyview on HN

It's amazing to me that everyone even slightly disliked by the ruling class isn't doing this. Like remember when Nintendo took down a bunch of Switch emulators... from GitHub? Why were they primarily on GitHub?


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undeveloperyesterday at 9:53 PM

Technically emulators are not against the law, piracy is against the law. And given that open source projects are all on github, it makes sense for them to just be on github

That said, there are many forks of the projects DMCA'd still floating around.