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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @11:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @11:29PM (#719683)

    I do have an objection to opting out. These things should be archived regardless of the wishes of the "owners," since they are part of culture. Copyright durations should be from 5-14 years at most, given how easy it is to replicate and spread art in the digital age. The entire point of copyright is to add to the public domain, not for "owners" to jealously guard their works. This is also why digital restrictions management should be illegal.