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

submitted 2 months 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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[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.