No more piracy on Github?

[Brawl345]

Congrats for useless thread #12843 today

 

[sarkwalvein]

There are countless tools for piracy, you can pretend to be dumb or pretend to be ignorant... it's not just console hacking, I can't post anything about it anymore or that porkiewpyne mod will delete it again.

Yet you postulate about money and legal processes, implying that a wealthier institution might be an easier target for taking down, instead of a better shielded one.

 

[nmkd]

I bet on my Switch that nothing will change for HB/CFW.

 

[SirNapkin1334]

Gitlab made a tutorial on migrating, awesome timing too.

would be cool but I hate gitlab

 

[Thatcher]

I read today that MS have vowed to keep GitHub "Independent and open" so it will be interesting to see if they keep their word.

I can't see much changing as I wouldn't class homebrew/CFW as piracy anyway. They make take a different approach to Loaders ect but time will tell.

 

[MrCokeacola]

Thanks, Micro$oft.

 

[mike4001]

Nintendo can sue Microsoft if they hosted the code for CFW on Github.

I think everyone needs to find another place to host soon.

And they couldn't sue Github before?

Please explain what exactly changes when MS takes over.

 

[DarkenSX]

Better host Alternative Gitlab

 

[Miqote]

Everyone freaking out about Microsoft purchasing Github but no one knows what they'll do. Man, people need to chill.

 

[KevinX8]

Better host Alternative Gitlab

It's better because Microsoft own github now? You clearly have no idea what Microsoft are like then, they have many open source projects themselves, sure windows isn't open source but it's not like they could make it open source. They are different from the company in 2004 who wanted Linux shut down at all costs.

 

[fringle]

Even if tools hosted there were written to enable piracy they can't do anything to them unless they contain proprietary copy written code. That's why it's open source. No proprietary code can be included and anyone can check the source themselves to make sure.

 

[netovsk]

Most likely the worse change that could happen to github is getting developers to login with a Microsoft account and optional integration with microsoft products and services.

 

[Mark McDonut]

Microsoft hasn't even done anything yet. I know their OS is unstable after updates but jeez guys, I'm a fucking IT guy and I don't even hate Microsoft this much.

If you hate them so much move to linux and shut up about it, but seriously, they don't exactly have a history of actual piracy crackdown aside from going after people doing it for profit, like legit bootlegging and selling cracked windows on usb sticks.

I just pirated like 4 0-day things off of a fucking ONEDRIVE last night. You guys need to relax. They're not going after anyone's self-written code. They would be destroying what they just bought.

 

[DaveLister]

It looks like sourceforge might be making a resurgence

Ye but what an infested shithole that place is .

 

[the_randomizer]

I'm sure emulators and their devs are SOL, thanks a lot Microshit.

 

[JellyPerson]

Why is this in the Switch section?

 

[MasterJ360]

Eh yeah I'm like since when did github even host piracy? tools for piracy isn't piracy.....

 

[the_randomizer]

Eh yeah I'm like since when did github even host piracy? tools for piracy isn't piracy.....

But they could still find some half-assed way to ban them.

 

[KevinX8]

I'm sure emulators and their devs are SOL, thanks a lot Microshit.

why? Did you assume Microsoft bought just to kill it? Some amazing logic right there. Don't go making up shit until something happens alright.

 

[the_randomizer]

why? Did you assume Microsoft bought just to kill it? Some amazing logic right there. Don't go making up shit until something happens alright.

They killed Rare, that's proof enough.