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Switch emulator Ryujinx shuts down development after “contact by Nintendo” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by PropaGandalf@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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At this point I'm very concerned about the open source industry relying so much on github. You have to remember that any project there can be swept away overnight because it doesn't fit into the agenca of a large company, for example.

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[-] Bitswap@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Bad press, a legal battle they couldn't actually win if it went to court

Those two seem like a stretch.

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Emulation and emulators aren't illegal. Yuzu for example got in trouble mostly for distributing tools for circumventing copy protection and dumping roms and not for the emulator itself.

But it doesn't really matter as nobody has money to defend themselves against something like Nintendo. Here just even the threat of it was enough to get the Ryujinx devs to fold just in case.

[-] Bitswap@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yes. Nintendo doesn't need to ever win a lawsuit. If they simply bring it, they will win through having the deepest pockets.

[-] Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

This is clearly bad press, everyone reading this gets negative thoughts about Nintendo. We are all talking about how bad they are RIGHT NOW.

Nintendo would absolutely lose that legal battle. It's well established that emulation is not a crime and nor is the development of emulators.

[-] Bitswap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You already had negative thoughts about nintendo...so does that count? Most people won't even see this...so I don't think it's much bad press.

As for legal battles...being sued is not really about committing crimes...you can lose legal battles while not doing anything illegal. I think Nintendo would likely win from simply pushing the devs into bankruptcy...

[-] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

If it's enough negative thoughts pile up, they'll eventually breach a threshold where people avoid the company. I was looking forward to Metroid Prime 4, but I'm thinking of skipping it now.