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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 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 5 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes but they are debt slaves to Nintendo for life

[–] Skkorm 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Oh that's good to know