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posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 24 2018, @01:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the then-ignore-nintendo-forever dept.

Nintendo to ROM sites: Forget cease-and-desist, now we're suing

Nintendo's attitude toward ROM releases—either original games' files or fan-made edits—has often erred on the side of litigiousness. But in most cases, the game producer has settled on cease-and-desist orders or DMCA claims to protect its IP.

This week saw the company grow bolder with its legal action, as Nintendo of America filed a lawsuit (PDF) on Thursday seeking millions in damages over classic games' files being served via websites.

The Arizona suit, as reported by TorrentFreak, alleges "brazen and mass-scale infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property rights" by the sites LoveROMs and LoveRetro. These sites combine ROM downloads and in-browser emulators to deliver one-stop gaming access, and the lawsuit includes screenshots and interface explanations to demonstrate exactly how the sites' users can gain access to "thousands of [Nintendo] video games, related copyrighted works, and images."

Also at Tom's Hardware.


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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday July 24 2018, @03:51AM (1 child)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @03:51AM (#711560) Journal

    Hot on the heels of the hidden NES emulator in Animal Crossing... Nintendo sues ROM sites in order to stimulate torrent trading of massive ROM archives. I have a huge dump of NES games somewhere... Hmmm.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @04:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @04:06AM (#711567)

    Did you post it on the Internet archive as a 40Gb file?