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.
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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.
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