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Personally I hope im wrong, but Im seeing lawsuit after lawsuit and emulators being taken down like ryujinx, dolphin, all of them. They may be smart, but Suyu was just taken down as well.
gitlab took it down not nintendo, they already have a self-hosted repo anyway, you can't kill open-source
dolphin was take down?
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.