Just last week, on Tuesday, February 26th, 2024, news broke out about the Yuzu emulator team being sued by none other than Nintendo themselves, with Nintendo claiming that the emulator apparently allowed users to play certain games early (due to street dates being broken) and also allowing...
Some people estimates they net ~$1.2M on patreon so far. If that’s the case they still ~$1.2M short.
Usually in a civil case you’d just settle for whatever money the devs had lying around.