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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 8 months ago (12 children)

They have the order to stop the development now.
They already deleted the repos.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I'm not a leach (I think some people call them attorneys or lawyers), but if they stopped development, removed the repos and all the crap Nintendo got away with, why do they have to pay? Am I missing something? Again, I've no idea how that shit works, so I'm asking out of genuine sheer ignorance. And also, can't they just move all their shit over to an "arrrr" paradise and tell Nintendo of the US of A to go fuck themselves and all of their family and pets together at the same time?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Not a lawyer but basically:
You make a bad thing (say burglary)
You are catched with red hands and immediatly bring it back and apologize to the owners.
You are being indicted.

In this case they admitted to be helping piracy of Nintendo games (no matter if it's actually true or not). They settled on a sum to pay back and were ordered to halt development work forever in their lives with anything regarding emulation, nintendo and their products.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah. I guess Nintendo frightened them enough to just say that they are an accessory to infringement. This just keeps getting sadder.

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