All Nintendo can legally do is take down the files that violate Nintendo’s rights, but to shut down the entire site is a violation of Love Rom’s rights because that’s taking down other files that aren’t any of Nintendo’s business, or jurisdiction. Those other non Nintendo files aren’t any of Nintendo’s business, and they can’t do anything about that. ![]() Sure, they’re roms from other consoles, and companies, but that’s for those individual companies to deal with Love Roms. Nintendo can’t legally take the whole site down because the site has more than just Nintendo Roms on there. Currently, LoveRETRO has been shut down while LoveROMs is still up without any ROMs for Nintendo consoles regardless of their creator/publisher. Will this affect you?Īs things currently stand, it probably won’t unless you were an avid fan of LoveROMs or the lesser-known LoveRETRO. Even though downloading old games is illegal, part of the reason why people do it is because they can’t legally purchase old games at a reasonable price or at all so there is that side of the story. According to Nintendo, even dumping your own games and using them for personal use is illegal however that is considered by some to be a gray area. We must remember that downloading game ROMs, especially of games that you don’t own, is illegal as copyright stays valid for 75 years in the USA. ![]() Jacob Mathias isn’t a well-known person in the piracy world and a quick Google search doesn’t return much about him or his net worth so it is doubtful that he has the money to actually pay up if he’s made to do so. The warning apparently didn’t reach Jacob MathiasĪs the websites apparently hosted 140 copyrighted games and infringed 40 trademarks, Jacob Mathias is being sued for a total of $100 million which is a pretty large sum of money. Nintendo is telling you “Don’t copy that game cart!”.
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