No more piracy on Github?

[AdamFX990]

Seems people are switching to GitLab.

I probably should've put a /s on that one. I jumped to gitlab as well. XD

 

[Nincompoopdo]

Any BIOS-based emulator is a copyright infringement as long as such BIOS isn't included on the download from GitHub.

We return to what I've said, the final user is the one that infringes the copyrights of the holders by the way they use such software, no emulator in existence (to my knowledge) is illegal.

If a final user decide to "create" the so called emulator AIO, and includes BIOS and ROM files from the systems it emulates, the developers of such emulators aren't responsible for any copyright infringement. Take as an example the very popular RetroArch, it is legal to use if you've made a dump of game cartridges you own.

I think Microsoft has a very clear idea of copyright infringement and that no emulator by the means of existence poses a threat to such copyrights, even those XBOX Emulators by themselves.

So then, no piracy has ever existed on GitHub.

Freeshop was taken down at Github on the request of Nintendo.

 

[Ryccardo]

Perhaps the most valid critic to this acquisition, which I haven't seen yet, is that Microsoft already owns a source-hosting service (Codeplex)... and you can all check how it ended up

Freeshop was taken down at Github on the request of Nintendo.

Only because you can't report just the downloads, just the whole project (the ALLEGEDLY infringing bootlogo is not part of Freeshop, rather it is built into makerom, and gets added by makerom while assembling a CXI... yet for Some Highly Mysterious Reason makerom is still on github, go figure!)