According to an official statement on Ryujinx’s Discord server, developer gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and they were offered an agreement to stop working on the emulator project, and while the agreement wasn’t confirmed yet, the organization has been entirely removed.

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      The dev got bribed (or threatened) by Nintendo to manually delete the repo. GitHub this time didn’t do anything

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        Lol, why do you think payment is the more likely of the two options?

        Why the hell would Nintendo pay them anything when a C&D is cheaper and just as effective.

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          As I understand it, cause of the country the creator is from, a C&D was unlikely to be enforceable. Money, on the other hand, is a universal language.

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            C&D in Brazil stands for Comedy & Despair, where you’re the one laughing at the company desperate to get you to do what they want without having any actual legal leverage

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            C&Ds are generally just threats to take someone to court. They aren’t themselves enforceable.

            Even I can send C&Ds if I want but I don’t have anything to back them up with. Nintendo on the other hand absolutely does.

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              By “enforceable,” I meant, “the reasonable legal means to follow up”.

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                So you wouldn’t comply with Nintendo in a similar position?

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                  I would, but I live in a country that cares about IP laws.

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                    Well, I for sure wouldn’t gamble my life for some emulator even if I lived in Brazil (Pretty sure it was Brazil).

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          Until now the stance was “rofl in Brazil C&Ds are a waste of money”, so the bribe option makes sense.

          Suppose that they calculate $1 million in legal costs in order to take the case to a court, then offering something like $200k to delete the repo is a big saving.

          The dev of simple mobile apps sold millions of users to an ad company for just $30k which was almost pennies if we think how popular those apps were in the Foss community

          Now, backups of the code are widely available, will the development continue without the main dev? Suyu (fork of yuzu) made almost no progress since the fork

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        At least with radicle all the forks will still exist even if the authoritative copy is taken down. And even then I think because radicle is like BitTorrent, anybody who pinned the main repo would still be seeding it so it would be very hard to scrub it completely. The main challenge in using radicle is getting an active contributor with some reputation to maintain their copy on there. Otherwise there’s no momentum and nobody will pin the countless mirrors published by randos.