<story><title>Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/05/27/dolphin-steam-indefinitely-postponed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EMIRELADERO</author><text>Is it your position that no entity should ever try to challenge a big company&amp;#x27;s interpretation of the law, however ridiculous it may be? At that point, why even have a judicial system?</text></item><item><author>dcchambers</author><text>Have to agree with this.&lt;p&gt;Nintendo is infamously litigious. I know that many people say the debate over emulators is &amp;quot;settled&amp;quot; and they are perfectly legal, but I&amp;#x27;d rather not poke the bear and just keep things as they are.&lt;p&gt;Emulators are an invaluable tool for game preservation...and I don&amp;#x27;t want to see one of, if not the best emulator ever, be forced to cease development.</text></item><item><author>slurpyb</author><text>I think they were crazy to even try. Just let it exist within RetroArch - in-fact I hope it doesn’t draw attention to RetroArch after this incident</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>favorited</author><text>Because the last time it was litigated in the US, the good guys won.  But SCEA v. Bleem was over 20 years ago, and there&amp;#x27;s no guarantee that the courts won&amp;#x27;t roll back protections for emulation development.&lt;p&gt;NoA is notoriously vindictive &amp;amp; litigious, and they have more money than the Dolphin devs.  Even though Sony lost the case, the lawsuit ruined Bleem.  It&amp;#x27;s not outside the realm of possibility that Nintendo will try to do the same thing to Dolphin, Ryujinx, Yuzu, etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/05/27/dolphin-steam-indefinitely-postponed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EMIRELADERO</author><text>Is it your position that no entity should ever try to challenge a big company&amp;#x27;s interpretation of the law, however ridiculous it may be? At that point, why even have a judicial system?</text></item><item><author>dcchambers</author><text>Have to agree with this.&lt;p&gt;Nintendo is infamously litigious. I know that many people say the debate over emulators is &amp;quot;settled&amp;quot; and they are perfectly legal, but I&amp;#x27;d rather not poke the bear and just keep things as they are.&lt;p&gt;Emulators are an invaluable tool for game preservation...and I don&amp;#x27;t want to see one of, if not the best emulator ever, be forced to cease development.</text></item><item><author>slurpyb</author><text>I think they were crazy to even try. Just let it exist within RetroArch - in-fact I hope it doesn’t draw attention to RetroArch after this incident</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonhohle</author><text>It’s an expensive theory to test. I would imagine most OSS projects or their contributors are not in a financial position to get to court, let alone see the trial to a conclusion.&lt;p&gt;I don’t know what to do about it, but it seems we’ve fell into aristocracy of ruling corporations.</text></comment>