What I’m saying is that free things arent really free.

He’s not getting paid?

Isn’t the DDG guy an asshole as well though?

The searxng public instances tend to be a bit shit.

They’re slow. Maybe only several seconds but that feels like an eternity in 2024.

They also frequently seem to be blocked by the services they’re scraping.

It’s this.

NDS games for example hust have a completely different design language.

A similar dynamic applies to most professions.

Clients just don’t understand the work involved, they have no way to estimate a reasonable cost.

I’m a very poor salesman, but sometimes it can help to ask a client what their budget is. Take web development for example. Whether it costs $100 or $100,000 depends mostly on what the client can afford, and they’ll end up with a product that fits their price.

not sure why you insist on telling me […]

Because you clearly have no idea.

I don’t care very much. You’re the one telling the story but not providing any information.

The existence of a not-for-profit implies there’s some value somewhere. If there’s no value then you don’t need the structure.

Tell any lawyer or CPA that you have a not-for-profit involved in intellectual property infringement and they will tell you the NFP is liable on that basis.

Well yeah but the existence of a not-for-profit means that there’s some kind of benefit being provided to some class of people. If someone elses IP is involved in that and you’re not paying for it then they might give you a cease and desist even if there’s no money.

It’s just how the world works mate. Call me names all you like but any company is going to sue you if you start making money off their IP.

If these guys were making money off their emulator then it’s not surprising in the least that Nintendo gutted them.

Three trick to being a parasite is that you can’t attract the hosts attention in any way. If you start eating the hosts food they goanna swat you.

Usually in a civil case you’d just settle for whatever money the devs had lying around.