recommending the "hard" way, when some great developers have made it (a lot) easier ?
sigpatches generator :
BTW sigpatches will NEVER ever disappear from internet. DMCA claim on github is some kind of intimidation and does not rely on ANY law.
Learning how to make it is great, but not really necessary.
I recommended that thread because it mentions both the .exe and the python script. I figured then they could choose which way they wanted to do it.
Last I checked, the 1st thing, the 1st post says is to check out the .exe
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Sigpatches will probably never disappear from the internet, much like roms never do.
The DMCA notice does rely on law. As is common practice with any kind of legal notice Nintendo's lawyers specifically mentioned the law and subsection the notice relies on.
Straight from the notice:
"Trafficking in circumvention software, such as SigPatches, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the United States (specifically, 17 U.S.C. §1201), and infringes copyrights owned by Nintendo."
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/07/2022-07-28-nintendo-of-america.md
That section states:
"(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;"
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201