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Small caveat:
The first switch emulator that was taken down (I think yuzu), was justified by Nintendo as copyright infringement because people (including moderators) were sharing copyrighted material openly on their public discord. BIOS files, links to games, and early leaks.
The more recent one (Ryujinx I think) was the one that did things right, so Nintendo didn't have that copyright leg to stand on. So instead (according to the maintainer of the Mac fork) they sent goons to the house of the head dev in Brazil... to "talk" him into taking it down.
Wait, they sent people to their house? What the fuck? Are they a video game company, or the mob?
You could ask the same thing of Wizards of the Coast who sent goons to a guy's house over some Magic The Gathering cards.
We live in an age where these two things are becoming interchangeable.
It was literally the Pinkertons. Long-time union infiltrators.
God we really are beyond fucked, aren't we?