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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: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:56AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:56AM (#711546)

    Uh lots of people play video games. The original arcade games were NOT invented for children. They were placed in bars.

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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @04:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @04:43AM (#711575)

    They were placed in bars.

    Bars full of children. In Thaighland. With Andrew Anglin, Nazi Pedofile.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 24 2018, @01:24PM (4 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 24 2018, @01:24PM (#711702) Journal

    Not only were they in bars. All the original video games were extremely violent video games.

    Space Invaders

    Frogger

    Missile Commander

    etc

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    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:59PM (3 children)

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:59PM (#711804) Journal

      IIRC, the original video game was tic-tac-toe. Violent?

      And Space War, the original commercial game, was only violent if you also think that Chess is violent.

      That said, the two simplest plots are sex and violence. And sex is forbidden. So this is a lot about what can be presented simply, and partially about what appeals to the widest audience, and partially about what it allowed.

      And, thinking about it, even sex is harder to synopsize in virtual form than violence. Even checkers can be seen as an abstraction of violence.

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      • (Score: 1) by noneof_theabove on Tuesday July 24 2018, @06:23PM (1 child)

        by noneof_theabove (6189) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @06:23PM (#711814)

        How violent was Pong? One of the earliest games.

        • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday July 24 2018, @10:25PM

          by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 24 2018, @10:25PM (#711988) Journal

          Well, I've seen people get rather violently emotional at ping-pong matches, and since it's also rather like tennis, https://www.tennis-prose.com/bios/examples-of-incidents-of-violence-in-pro-tennis/ [tennis-prose.com]

          I was trying to recall one particular case that made the world news, but couldn't narrow it down enough. There were too many returns when searching for "women's tennis match violence".

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      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @06:26PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @06:26PM (#711817)

        I was reprimanded by my great-aunt-in-law for playing such a violent game a minesweeper once.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:57PM (#711801)

    But they were placed there so the kids would have something to do while the parents got hammered.