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People please try using https://radicle.xyz/ for hosting source code. I haven't used it but the idea of it sounds pretty cool
The dev got bribed (or threatened) by Nintendo to manually delete the repo. GitHub this time didn't do anything
Lol, why do you think payment is the more likely of the two options?
Why the hell would Nintendo pay them anything when a C&D is cheaper and just as effective.
Until now the stance was "rofl in Brazil C&Ds are a waste of money", so the bribe option makes sense.
Suppose that they calculate $1 million in legal costs in order to take the case to a court, then offering something like $200k to delete the repo is a big saving.
The dev of simple mobile apps sold millions of users to an ad company for just $30k which was almost pennies if we think how popular those apps were in the Foss community
Now, backups of the code are widely available, will the development continue without the main dev? Suyu (fork of yuzu) made almost no progress since the fork
C&Ds are essentially free though.