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

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What's not reported is that they will create a new codeberg account under a fake name, fork, and continue development in a few months

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Original dev almost certainly not, not if they have their real name which is likely.

Nintendo harasses people with private investigators and likely have a dossier on whoever they targeted that goes beyond just the project. Cheat on your wife? Have a questionable arrangement with your HOA about your garage? It's all ammo against you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't use your real name, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In this age with PIs and lawyers, it can often be found, and emudevs probably don't start thinking they will be facing down a giant corpo over a hobby project.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In this age where PIs have been replaced with Facebook scrapers and lawyers have been replaced with ChatGPT, it can more easily be hidden -- especially if you use tools like Tor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If you start the project intending to be untracable, yes.

Most software devs aren't thinking of that. These things with emulators often start as a hobby.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure, that's why you abandon it, make a public statement about closing shop (exactly like happens here) and then fork it under a new identity