This isn’t what happened. Emulators for old consoles are still online. Nintendo sued people making Switch emulators. That console and those games were available for sale at the time of the lawsuit.
It was a valid point - Nintendo could sue the twelve year old for putting Mario fanart on their fridge, but they’d struggle to show damages, so even if they were only doing it to prove a point about how litiguous and evil they could be, it would be enough of a waste of money that they wouldn’t bother.
It’s a common misconception that distribution is required for infringement. Fanart that’s never shared still copies the likeness of a copyrighted character, and copying copyrighted stuff (outside a few very specific exceptions, e.g. fair use for parody, critique or education, making a single backup in case the copy you bought is damaged etc.) isn’t legal. As there are obviously no damages, no one ever gets in toruble for it, but that doesn’t mean it’s legal.
Well, they are still quite aggressive in take downs of rom distributors. Luckily it usually just makes those specific roms unavailable for some time, rather than full site takedowns (although that has happened.)
Also every fan version of a game, like Metroid 2 fan remake, gets a takedown notice. :/
This isn’t what happened. Emulators for old consoles are still online. Nintendo sued people making Switch emulators. That console and those games were available for sale at the time of the lawsuit.
Yes, but the sites hosting ROMs for ANY system get repeatedly destroyed by Nintendo.
Lotta good those emulators are without ROMs.
I did a quick search and immediately found websites hosting Nintendo ROMs from the original NES to the Wii.
“I found some they haven’t destroyed yet” does not refute what they said.
If you do another quick search, you’ll probably also find Mario fanart that a 12yo put on their fridge.I’m not sure where I was going with that.That doesn’t mean Nintendo doesn’t sue the shit out of ROM sites that get popular enough.
It was a valid point - Nintendo could sue the twelve year old for putting Mario fanart on their fridge, but they’d struggle to show damages, so even if they were only doing it to prove a point about how litiguous and evil they could be, it would be enough of a waste of money that they wouldn’t bother.
A 12 year old putting Mario fanart on their fridge is not copyright infringement. They didn’t distribute it. It’s their house.
It’s a common misconception that distribution is required for infringement. Fanart that’s never shared still copies the likeness of a copyrighted character, and copying copyrighted stuff (outside a few very specific exceptions, e.g. fair use for parody, critique or education, making a single backup in case the copy you bought is damaged etc.) isn’t legal. As there are obviously no damages, no one ever gets in toruble for it, but that doesn’t mean it’s legal.
Nintendo fans are the worst bootlickers.
they sued yuzu not for making the emulator, but passing roms in a back room and using nintendos IP as marketing material for their content.
Ryunjinx was silently paid off behind the scenes.
making the emulator was not the problem, it was the actions surrounding the emulator that did the team in
Well, they are still quite aggressive in take downs of rom distributors. Luckily it usually just makes those specific roms unavailable for some time, rather than full site takedowns (although that has happened.)
Also every fan version of a game, like Metroid 2 fan remake, gets a takedown notice. :/