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Nintendo Sues ROM Sites

posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 24 2018, @01:35AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by shortscreen on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:03AM

    by shortscreen (2252) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:03AM (#711626) Journal

    Nintendo was able to sell NES Classic consoles as fast as it could possibly manufacture them. They've resold their catalogs 2-3 times to their hardcore fans and their oldest games still sell new copies every year, decades after they've recouped their production cost. Emulation doesn't do any damage at all

    TFS says websites had the games running in an emulator inside the browser. Given what I know about websites, browsers, and JavaShit, I'd assume the games were probably glitchy, laggy, mangled, and otherwise unplayable. That's why Nintendo had to shut them down, because their product was being represented in an unfair and disparaging manner, threatening future sales.

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