There was two internet web sites which spreaded around NES ROMs freely to anyone who downloaded them. Nintendo saw it as illegal act and sued the couple who ran the sites to the court.
The men had to pay 12 million euros to Nintendo or face lengthy prison sentences.
This will now be a valid scare tactic for others who ran ROM sites and we may see them disappear. But this wont stop spreading the ROMs anonymously as torrentes.
well you cant buy Nintendo 8 bit console or its games anymore as new
exvept the "Nintendo Mini" which doesnt even have the games you want
ok I get it that Nintendo wants to close ROMs of those games found in Nintendo Mini but what about all the rest of the games?
besides not all NES games were made by Nintendo, they were made by other companies for Nintendo system
Adam Nelson
>yes goyim, Nintendo should file copyright claims on behalf of other companies with no relation to Nintendo, and even defunct companies, and get all the compensation >extending copyright hundreds of years it's totally good for innovation and fair to the original author even though he's long gone The only worse thing than an NPC it's a legit kike
Hudson Morris
>proprietary software What do they say about sticking your dick in fire
Jace Martinez
You know the really ironic part is Ninendo have been caught using ROMs downloaded from sites like this in the past. And i'm pretty sure the Mini consoles have used them too.
And Nintendo really need to put 16bit games on their online service thing.
Isaac Lopez
It's retarded how if these sites didn't exist, Nintendo wouldn't be able to sell the roms themselves in classic consoles, virtual console and with the nintendo online subscription, since they use the same rom files people could download. There's also an argument for preservation of games. Anyways, I got a copy of each and every single one, downloaded them beforehand. Since I knew this shit would happen, it convinced me to finally get all of them at once, so in a way, Nintendo lost, at least to me.
Bentley Hill
These games came out only a few years after that printer sent RMS off the deep end, he hadn't really been able to spread his ideologies yet
Jacob Ortiz
Poo in the EU. It gets more cucked every day.
Xavier Thomas
That's right. In America it would be the capital punishment.
Noah Nguyen
friendly reminder to never ever buy anything nintendo again
Retard. Anyone with a brain thinks that copyright law has gotten way out of hand. Gotta defend Disney and those poor multi-million dollar corporations though, right?
Liam Lopez
>Pirates had to pay millions for spreading the NES ROM around no, an ad+malware serving platform had to pay millions for attracting users and income to their website using a brand's properties
Nicholas Nguyen
And why should this not be allowed??
Justin Cook
there doesn't need to be a reason, it's the law when you do something illegal, you may be punished for it when you do something illegal, and profit from it, you morally deserve to be punished for it
they didn't get what was coming to them, they deserve the firing squad instead of a fine
Hunter Ward
Bootlickers need a firing squad.
John Collins
>when you do something illegal, and profit from it, you morally deserve to be punished for it Are you seriously claiming that laws are inherently moral?
Brody Bailey
they have one, and they shoot lawbreakers with it
willfully and deliberately profiting from disobeying laws inherently immoral
Julian Lee
>willfully and deliberately profiting from disobeying laws inherently immoral Immoral by what kind of standard? People have moral obligations to each other, not to a book of rules.
Dominic Parker
>People have moral obligations to each other then the spreader of malware, the seller of data, the charlatan, the thief, the profiteer, is looking after whom?
himself? his other? and? that is moral, when it stops there?
they were no provider to community, they were a profiteer
Liam Jenkins
I didn't claim that all illegal behaviours were moral, only that laws aren't intrinsically moral.
Hunter Taylor
then i show my statement again, with clear emphasis >when you do something illegal, you may be punished for it
>when you do something illegal, and profit from it, you morally deserve to be punished for it >and profit from it
Ayden Smith
Why does whether you profit matter?
Joseph Clark
cheaters will burn everyone else is following the rules, someone breaking the rules to gain a financial advantage over other shall meet the rope
Owen Long
you are an idiot, why don't you read a book called Basic Economics
Fuck nintendo and their faggot supporters. Nintendo has been profiting from this shit and rom sites kept the games alive and also the gathering of those people in forums and chsts helped to find unreleased games and also lost roms. Inb4 reee phone poster I am getting a haircut faggots, shitposting never stops.
Jose Ross
>LoveROMs.com and LoveRETRO.co literally who?
Logan Reyes
t. entitled manbaby
Jackson Garcia
I have most of the ROMs and ISOs I could need over a hard drive that surely will end up dying in like 3 days just fuck with me.
Anyways, this won't stop distribution. Not now, not in the following years. Europeans can't do dick to change that even by law.
James Jackson
Show haircut or suck a dick, your choice.
Eli Ward
A couple of ROM sites in a sea of ROM sites. Nintendo can't shut them all down, and more will pop up in their place.
Luke Ramirez
>laws working as intended before lobbyist manipulation is entitlement t. Neoliberal corporate bootlicker
Nathaniel Gonzalez
>"gayming" fads start to wean >re-invent the wheel again >still no more money >sue a few good men for 12 million$ to get money
Bentley Nguyen
HOLY SHIT. WHAT DID THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR BATTLETOADS ?
[spoiler] you have to be at least 30 years old to get this one [/spoiler]
What would be the best way to make ROMs and such available to the public without it being taken down in like 3 minutes
If people are looking for something I have, it'd be nice if I could make it accessible. I don't think it's anything to worry about right now but hey, maybe in the future.
Charles Long
Change all the art to your own, you can't copyright game only the art
Evan Lee
I wouldn't mind, I draw like a 5 year old but some people would probably have a fetish for that.
Isaiah Watson
>inb4 cant find anything beyond 4th gen because cd/dvd sized
Luis Fisher
I saw some underage redditor posts but holy shit son you took it to an entire new level.
thanks for saving me the time to reply to this asshole
Justin Sullivan
there is literally nothing more npc than shilling against piracy
Henry Thompson
How are ROMs proprietary software when the emulators are libre and distros like trisquel have emulators available and they don’t even have firefox available because it’s not libre enough for them.
Alexander Butler
i fucking love romnation. it even works without javascript. hope this doesn't happen to them. i think they never allowed downloading ROMs of Nintendo's own games anyway.
Kayden Thomas
Emulators are piracy too.
Oliver Brown
Piracy (context: software) means the redistribution of copyrighted software. Emulators don't fit that. But I know you're baiting so fuck it.
Nicholas Wilson
>Emulators don't fit that Atlus Filed Copyright Strike Against PS3 Emulator
Nolan Watson
Goy, you should buy that game again 20 years after its release and give money to the company that bought the company that bought the original company and in which none of the original people who worked on the game are left
Camden Scott
Any reason why NES ROMs aren't old enough to become public domain?
Nolan Cruz
can we just fucking range ban the subcontinent already
Anthony White
because firefox has nonfree code and emulators don't? what does any of that have to do with ROMs? i hope you are reddit
Zachary Smith
>piracy >Emulators are piracy too. There was no piracy committed here. It's a case of copyright infringement. What you're referring to as piracy, is in fact, unauthorized copying, or as I've recently taken to calling it, unauthorized sharing. Piracy is not the act of obtaining an unauthorized copy of a copyrighted work, but rather robbery or criminal violence at sea.
Many computer users make unauthorized copies every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the act which is widely performed today is often called piracy, and many of the people who do it are not aware that it is basically copying, and not stealing.
There really is a piracy, and some people are doing it, but it is just robbery at sea. Piracy is an act of theft: an action at sea in which goods are forcefully transferred from one ship to another. Piracy is important to be aware of, but unrelated to unauthorized copying; it can only function at sea. Piracy is normally not used in combination with unauthorized copying: the two acts are basically separate. All the so-called piracy is really unauthorized copying.
Luke Myers
Because they were advertising the fuck out of their emulator being "the way to play persona 5" and posting links to ISO dumps.
Just like a lockpick manufacturer is perfectly legal until they start marketing their products as the best way to open bike locks and save money by stealing said bike.
Jordan Johnson
Same reason why old Diney movies aren't public domain, they'll just keep renewing copyright
Hudson Cox
>Any reason why NES ROMs aren't old enough to become public domain? Copyright lasts 70+ years in most countries. >they'll just keep renewing copyright You can't renew copyright. What Disney's doing is bribing and lobbying politicians to extend the duration of copyright for everyone. It's up to 95 years now. Totally crooked.
Wyatt Turner
Kill yourself law follower. Steal everything you fucking bootlicking nigger, there is no moral obligation to pay for anything, stop being brainwashed.
Liam Ortiz
Bring multi million dollar doesn't make them wrong
Anthony Cooper
Guess I'm gonna go hunt for torrents that have all GBA, GBC and genesis games in case things get retarded. I've had nes and snes for awhile now. The pack with every NES rom is less than 1gig, go grab it and keep distribution alive.
Asher Walker
>Copyright lasts 70+ years in most countries. Copyright should expire once the console life is over.
Evan Peterson
It's funny how shit like what happened in OP's message causes more people to host them even more, with the added feeling of scarcity it even causes more and more people to get them.
Dylan Miller
desu huge corporations have twisted copyright law into something that's SO extremely restrictive the people who first made copyright law are turning in their graves
Lobbying hundreds of thousands of dollars on a single candidate per year should be illegal, period.
Hudson Williams
nah, only when stock dries up. If you can buy it legally at equal or below launch prices, I think it's fine for it to have a copyright still. It's stuff like NES carts that haven't been widely available for decades that is ridiculous.
Jace Reed
But I can't play PSX games on PS4.
Wyatt Long
Copyright should expire in 10 years or less.
Right now, why is society even issuing copyright and protecting it if we can't get the copyrighted materials into society freely within anyone's lifetime?
Carson Walker
I guess they're killing art that way.
Elijah Martin
>t. a NEET
Wyatt Morris
They already did.
Imagine when all the shitheads like toriyama fucking bites it, no more people to use on promotional material, just a name in a franchise with no direction or future.
Luis Robinson
20 years would be fine. The entire 8 and 16 bit generation and all the good 90s cartoons would be public domain. Imagine.
Adam Richardson
>but what about all the rest of the games? They would rather those games be erased from history than have someone play it without having bought it decades ago.
John Rogers
>morality without God
No. One of the problems atheists have is the unbelievers' assertion that it is possible to determine what is right and what is wrong without God. They have a fundamental inability to concede that to be effectively absolute a moral code needs to be beyond human power to alter.
On this misunderstanding is a supposed conundrum about whether there is any good deed that could be done only by a religious person, and not done by a Godless one. Like all such questions, this contains another question: what is good, and who is to decide what is good?
Left to himself, Man can in a matter of minutes justify the incineration of populated cities; the deportation, slaughter, disease and starvation of inconvenient people and the mass murder of the unborn.
I have heard people who believe themselves to be good, defend all these things, and convince themselves as well as others. Quite often the same people will condemn similar actions by different countries, often with great vigour.
For a moral code to be effective, it must be attributed to, and vested in, a non-human source. It must be beyond the power of humanity to change it to suit itself.
Its most powerful expression is summed up in the words 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends'.
The huge differences which can be observed between Christian societies and all others, even in the twilit afterglow of Christianity, originate in this specific injunction.
Connor Nguyen
so dont distribute ROMs over your website? Upload a torrent.
Kayden Powell
So why don't these sites run on IPFS instead of public DDL again?
Cameron Myers
Sounds like banks, corporations, govt's and the 1%. They don't get punished tho.
Ian Peterson
>steal shit >make money off of distribution of stolen shit >owner of stolen shit sues you and tells you to pay up >this is unjust somehow really makes me think
Elijah Campbell
And at the end of 95 years they'll do it again, basically renewing copyright
Anthony Moore
Don't some of these Nintendo emulators require a copy of a console BIOS to make some games work properly? Most people just pirate that stuff and that's highly illegal.
Kevin Cox
>Left to himself, Man can in a matter of minutes justify Justification through religion for atrocities are perfectly common. >The huge differences which can be observed between Christian societies and all others Is the hypocracy of the scripture and the actions. At least mudslimes don't pretend to be peaceful and loving. All morality barely reaches further than the closest circle and it never reaches universally
Evan White
>justification for religious atrocities
Another favourite argument of the irreligious is that conflicts fought in the name of religion are necessarily conflicts about religion. By saying this they hope to establish that religion is of itself a cause of conflict. This is a crude factual misunderstanding. The only general lesson that can be drawn is that Man is inclined to make war on Man when he thinks it will gain him power, wealth or land
Luis Brooks
Copyright law shouldn’t exist in the first place
Asher Collins
yes they need BIOS and BIOS copying is illegal but there is no point in games themselves being illegal
Austin Johnson
Not playing only free and open source games
Angel Stewart
Shame on you goyim trying to deny the yellow jew his shekels.
t. I only do what a space wizard supposedly told me to do
People have morals because it's a feeling required for survival. Things are considered good or bad depending on the results, immediate or long term. If morality solely depended on christian beliefs we'd still have people beheaded because they "spoke god's name in vain," however people understand that the right of freedom of speech is more important since it results in better survivability towards the group, more topics can be discussed, and there's no harm with it.
Easton Nguyen
What you’re describing isn’t morality, it’s a kind of quasi-moral zeitgeist that will shift and change as time goes on. Morality is only morality if it is based on something that is beyond mans power to change.
Justin Cruz
>People have morals because it's a feeling required for survival. Most higher order morals have nothing to do with survival. Like giving to others when you'll never get anything back from it. It is pretty arrogant for one religion to claim to be the source of morality though
Carson Nelson
>space wizard
The Christian God isn’t a wizard nor does he live in space.
Who are you describing user?
Samuel Taylor
Nice job with coming up with shit that doesn't exist. Morality to an extent differs from group to group, that's normal, not everything works out the same way socially between certain circles. However it all boils down to the same thing which is survivability. There's actual scientific evidence of this. What you're trying to make up is some make believe that there's something that can determine how you feel about certain things? Are you actually proposing you're an NPC?
Caleb Hall
I live in Spain, they don't give a fuck about vídeo games piracy here.
Gavin Morales
Groups where people tend to be more kind to each other tend to have a higher survivability rate. He is, he can split oceans, create a huge flood with water that came out of nowhere and create planets and shit, also according to them the world is flat. That boils down to being wizardry because the laws of physics doesn't apply to him.
Justin Bennett
>atheist doesn’t believe in morality
Well I never.
Julian Ward
>However it all boils down to the same thing which is survivability survivability boils down to survival of the fittest which is generally considered immoral
Ian Jones
The um, ones without morals have spread prodigiously and shaped the entirety of your history.