Seeing as Yuzu has been nintendo’d recently, what do people think will happen to ryujinx? Can Nintendo get them on the same grounds as Yuzu or would they need to come up with a new case against them?

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    9 months ago

    Personally I hope inm==m wrong, but Im seeing lawsuit after lawsuit and emulators being taken down like ryujinx, dolphin, all of them. They may be smart, but Suyu was just taken down as well.

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      gitlab took it down not nintendo, they already have a self-hosted repo anyway, you can’t kill open-source

      dolphin was take down?

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        Dolphin was not taken down. Dolphin was not allowed to launch on Steam because Nintendo threatened Valve with a lawsuit. Regardless of the merits of the case, Valve doesn’t want to pay to defend a case so they can distribute have a free emulator, so they caved and blocked Dolphin’s Steam release.

        Nintendo claimed Dolphin violates the DMCA but have not taken any direct legal action against Dolphin as far as I am aware.

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          Nintendo made no legal demands nor threatened to sue any involved party, their letter just formally requests that dolphin wouldn’t be published on steam.

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            9 months ago

            When lawyers write a formal letter it is backed by an implied threat that it could become litigious if the demands aren’t met.

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            Launching on steam didn’t make distributing the key illegal. If its illegal on steam, it’s illegal even when self-hosted.

            Nintnedo took action because they knew they had leverage against valve.

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              Nothing is legal/illegal til proven in court, those willing to fight to prove legality doesnt define anything really