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Nintendo Sues ROM Sites

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

takyon writes:

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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• you're holding it wrong you're holding it wrong (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:45AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:45AM (#711537)

  This is about video games, again, isn't it? Entertainment for incels.

  FTFY

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• Re:you're holding it wrong (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @04:41AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @04:41AM (#711574)

  Correlation is not causation; unless it is reversed? OMG!

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