• Eggyhead@kbin.run
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    2 months ago

    Do we need to worry about GitHub shutting this down even though it’s not doing anything wrong?

    • simple@lemm.eeOP
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      2 months ago

      Actually not really. It’s not sharing any of Nintendo’s assets so there isn’t any ground for it to be removed.

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        2 months ago

        Since when has not having grounds stopped corporations from trying? Case in point, YouTube copyright striking

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          They’re much more likely to spend time on the easy wins than on anything that’ll take time and money to fight in court. Since these folks aren’t redistributing any of Nintendo’s copyrighted content, it’s not as simple of a takedown as an emulator that includes private keys.

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            2 months ago

            Github isn’t taking Nintendo to court over one of their users projects. They just comply with the takedown request and remove it. The user/dev isn’t going to fight Nintendo to bring it back either.

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      Just in case you are still curious, and I don’t see any actual answers here. The download provided is all the code for the game engine and everything else that would be going on in the background of the game. Anything that could be copyrighted by Nintendo (things like character and object models, textures, music, and environments) need to come from a totally legit dump from an official Nintendo cartridge and definitely not any ol’ .rom file you can download online