p3e7Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8,000 emulator-related DMCA takedowns
MikufanWell, just to the next. Hope Nintendo wastes more money on legal.
NuXCOM_90PercentIt is almost a zero cost. They already have the legal-ish ruling. It is just filling out a form letter and sending it out.
Still a lawyer doing it. If everyone ads a repo every day, they would waste a lot of funds on fighting against windmills.
You don’t need a lawyer to file a DMCA request. You just need to be ready to get one if someone disputes it.
And Nintendo almost definitely have lawyers on retainer, if not in house. The added cost of this is the effort it takes to search github for “uzu” and send an email.
There are law firms that work on contract specifically to do this work. And it’s not like the senior partner is doing it repo by repo, it’s a junior paralegal searching GitHub for “yuzu.cpp” or whatever and filing one big takedown request for all the results.
If there hadn’t already been a court ruling-ish (it is complicated) giving Nintendo the “right” to do this? Sure
As it stands? It very well could be an intern filling out a word document
Hmm I smell another “DeCSS” coming along…