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Dolphin was not taken down. Dolphin was not allowed to launch on Steam because Nintendo threatened Valve with a lawsuit. Regardless of the merits of the case, Valve doesn't want to pay to defend a case so they can distribute a free emulator, so they caved and blocked Dolphin's Steam release.
Nintendo claimed Dolphin violates the DMCA but have not taken any direct legal action against Dolphin as far as I am aware.
Nintendo made no legal demands nor threatened to sue any involved party, their letter just formally requests that dolphin wouldnโt be published on steam.
When lawyers write a formal letter it is backed by an implied threat that it could become litigious if the demands aren't met.
Cause dolphin ships with the decryption keys for a wii (the part yuzu makes you dump yourself)
Launching on steam didn't make distributing the key illegal. If its illegal on steam, it's illegal even when self-hosted.
Nintnedo took action because they knew they had leverage against valve.
Nothing is legal/illegal til proven in court, those willing to fight to prove legality doesnt define anything really
Whether it is legal to distribute that key does not depend on which platform is distributing it.
Amen, but me doing a rolling stop in butt fuck Alberta certainly feels a lot more legal then plowing through a school zone stop sign in downtown new york, although they are both illegal.
My point is value is a target with much more to lose and literally no cards in the game (shit dolphin's free, theyre not even making profit off it) so why would they fight others battle's