This time it won't be based in Jersey either good luck closing down a project hosted in China or San Marino. The Yuzu team has done a great service closing the case as quickly as possible

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I don't understand why people who work on these things don't protect their identity and location any better...

Host in a random country, accept crypto donations and make them untraceable by switching them to monero, always use a VPN...

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 22 points 8 months ago

Right? It seems the official discord also had links to where to get ROMs, as in pirated ROMs. I can't believe they got complacent knowing Nintendo could come after them at any second.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This made me wonder if blockchain tech could, hypothetically, be used as a sort of distributed SCM platform, where each commit is stored as data appended to a transaction, not unlike git. Blockchain's polycentric structure would solve the issue of resilience and integrity, and Monero's technology could be used to anonymize the commits.

This would of course come with all of the disadvantages of blockchain, and the project would still need a central authority to accept or reject commits, to manage branches, and to define which transactions represent the HEAD of each branch. I think it's at least an interesting concept.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 7 points 8 months ago

But we can already mirror a git repository, and you can already sign your commits. The weak point here was the developers' identities, not the platform on which the data was hosted.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yes but they are debt slaves to Nintendo for life

[–] Skkorm@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nah they Incorporated specifically to protect themselves. The company will go bankrupt, but the people will be protected.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 8 months ago

Oh that's good to know

[–] unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org 10 points 8 months ago

Not necessarily. The LLC will pay out as much as it can and then filler for bankruptcy. The individuals will likely get off scott free since they've not actually been convicted of any wrongdoing.

I imagine that developing Yuzu and Citra would be a huge item on their CVs, too. Honestly, if Nintendo were smart, they would have tried to buy the project somehow and hire the developers to work on backwards compatibility for whatever the console that comes after the Switch 2 is..