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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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[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 72 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Someday we’ll learn that GitHub just isn’t the place for this kind of stuff…

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What is the alternative?

Closed source "I swear this executable that will let you play all the games you want is legit" hosted on sourceforge or random websites that get hugged to death every day that ends in a y?

Also: it isn't like that would stop this kind of legal action. MS/Github are barely a factor. It is the devs themselves getting the "hey, stop it or we'll turn you into indentured servants" letters.

[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I agree with your second paragraph, but you do know there are plenty of good alternatives to Github right?

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

And they change nothing? It still boils down to human beings being liable.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

GitFlic in Russia. Good luck telling them to get rid of something

It's where Bypass paywall clean browser extension went after the DMCA bullshut

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 23 points 1 month ago

GitHub has nothing to do with this. All the information we have is that the dev himself took everything down after an agreement with Nintendo.