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Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ayla@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] Corgana@startrek.website 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

but what are they expecting the server admins to do after moving off Discord when Nintendo’s lawyers send them a letter

...Not... kick them out? Discord doesn't kick out extremist groups. This seems comparatively mild. I think they had a reasonable expectation to be left alone. Nintendo got a court injunction but Discord didn't fight it.

[-] dmalteseknight@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago

I am guessing noone is suing discord for hosting these groups were Nintendo might be threatening a lawsuit for hosting these devs.

So not a matter of morals but self-preservation.

[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

Is the expectation that Discord will risk spending potentially millions in court with Nintendo to protect a single community? From their perspective, it's easy to see why they'd just bend over.

Discord's response was extreme, and that is inexcusable. I'm not trying to defend them here. The core problem here though is Nintendo harassing these developers to try to stop these projects. They could have easily been kicked out by any other platform, or sent a C&D if they tried to self-host one.