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.

  • lud@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    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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      6 days ago

      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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        6 days ago

        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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        5 days ago

        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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          5 days ago

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

          • lud@lemm.ee
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            5 days ago

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

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              5 days ago

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

              • lud@lemm.ee
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                5 days ago

                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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      6 days ago

      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