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Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak
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this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026
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If anyone can afford the lawyers and has an incentive to challenge Nintendo, surely it’s Microsoft…..
What's their incentive?
A little good press for GitHub to offset all the bad press from downtime.
Doesn't seem worth the time or effort to lawyer up over.