Ryujinx emulator taken down after devs reach agreement with Nintendo
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In what could possibly be the worst way to start October for emulation enthusiasts, as of just a few minutes ago the Ryujinx repository appears to be down, with the usual "404" message being given when trying to enter any of their related GitHub pages. Not even the main Ryujinx developer account...

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.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

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

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months 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.

        • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          2 months 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.

          • Virkkunen@fedia.io
            2·
            2 months 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

          • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 months 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.

              • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

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

                  • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
                    1·
                    2 months ago

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

        • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
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          2 months 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