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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think the 'successors' are still in dmca violation (at least one not sure about the other). But it's still early days, anyway. Yuzu was successful because of the dedicated team behind it. Just setting up other repos doesn't mean much yet. It's gonna take months to see how things shake out.

But you can't deny the potential chilling effect of it all. Nintendo has shown that they will come for you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

But they also showed with what they will come for you.
If you outsource decryption from emulation, they can't do it (this way) again