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posted by janrinok on Thursday August 09 2018, @10:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

Retro game repository EmuParadise says it's finished distributing ROMs

Nintendo has had enough of pirates and the websites that enable them, like EmuParadise. After shutting down a handful of sites and a Game Boy Advance emulator on GitHub in July, the publisher has seemingly done the work to convince EmuParadise to shut down. This massive online library of downloadable old games started 18 years ago, and up until this moment it hosted nearly complete libraries of games for various consoles that you could download and play on emulators.

Playing ROMs, as these game files are often referred to as, on an emulator exists in a legal gray area, but distributing these copyrighted works for download on the internet is obviously and clearly illegal. But Nintendo and other publishers have mostly avoided investing resources in tracking down and enforcing its legal right in many of these cases over the last couple of decades. For Nintendo, however, something has changed, and it is cracking down. And EmuParadise has confirmed that it is going to do what it must to avoid facing legal action.

"We will continue to be passionate retro gamers and will keep doing cool stuff around retro games, but you won't be able to get your games from here for now," reads an EmuParadise blog post. "Where we go with this is up to us and up to you."

Read-only memory (ROM) image.

Also at Kotaku and TechCrunch.

Previously: Nintendo Sues ROM Sites


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  • (Score: 2) by AssCork on Thursday August 09 2018, @06:15PM (4 children)

    by AssCork (6255) on Thursday August 09 2018, @06:15PM (#719522) Journal

    TPB will likely go the way of Napster once the pens get to wagging.

    Holy SHIT you must be new. Welcome (back) to the Internet!

    So to get you up-to-speed, the Sweds tried to kill TPB, along with the US, the UK, most of China. Some even went as far as to seize domain names.
    But TPB is still kicking.
    (They were down for a few months once, which spawned the normal swarm of duplicate sites that LEOs have been chasing-down ever since)

    Source: Google, Wikipedia, and a few other sites that popped-up since Napster was gut-checked by Lars.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by kazzie on Thursday August 09 2018, @08:10PM

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 09 2018, @08:10PM (#719574)

    Sweds: are they the the Swedish version of US federal agents?

  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday August 09 2018, @09:54PM (2 children)

    by anubi (2828) on Thursday August 09 2018, @09:54PM (#719643) Journal

    One thing I do know is the USA will make one helluva mess out of another country if it takes a mind to.

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    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @11:14AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @11:14AM (#719867)

      Is this a subtle reference to the US ripping through NZ law to get Mega?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @09:09AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @09:09AM (#720266)

        That was a subtle reference to the USA doing a *lot* of things to foreign governments when they do not obey.