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by Sephr 3996 days ago
Grant Galitz, why do you keep submitting this on a new repository after Nintendo takes your old repository down (see https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2015-07-06-ninten...)? This is the 4th time you've submitted this to Hacker News, each time with brand new Hacker News and GitHub accounts. (The OP created his latest Hacker News account 4 hours ago at the time of this comment)

It's illegal, so no matter how many times you keep re-uploading it to GitHub it will eventually be taken down again and again. The more you defy Nintendo's DMCA takedown requests, the more likely Nintendo will notice and possibly try to track you down and sue you in person.

I understand that you want to show off your legal work (https://github.com/taisel/IodineGBA), but the only way to show it off is to require users to provide their own ROMs.

More proof that this is the same poster: https://github.com/playnintendo/gba/commit/e429bacd4d5fef715...

He forgot to change "jsemu" to "playnintendo" before re-uploading his repository to GitHub.

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The DMCA from Nintendo to "jsemu":

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2015-07-06-ninten...

I guess he just doesn't read the DMCA sent to GitHub or something? If you're going to write an emulator, fine. Distribute copyrighted games? Don't do it... They keep taking you down over it. I agree with Sephr.

Nice name shaming the wrong person. I reused his project. He wrote the emulator, I bundled it.
Oh, ok. Easy to mistake as Grant himself definitely did submit this a couple times in the past year, sometimes under his own ggalitz Hacker News account.
A copy still lives at:

https://github.com/walsh/gba

Why do users keep voting this submission up? It has 66 points currently.
People love games and emulators, and not everyone has seen this before, or recognizes it if they have. (I didn't.)