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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:43AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:43AM (#711535)

    And it makes me wonder, is the incel part so involuntary? Time to grow a pair, in the real world.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:47AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:47AM (#711540)

    I think we should draft him into the army. That's the only way to fix incels.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:55AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:55AM (#711544)

      But then they only relate to women as whores. Or commanding officers.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:14AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:14AM (#711589)

        Makes sense, since they have to run Windows, and have no experience of a Siri, or any other facsimile of a female. Poor Boys! Not Proud Boys, pretty pathetic gamerboys.