Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

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Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby Mable » Wed Jun 14, 2017 5:42 am

Emuparadise a well known site for roms and emulators has been target by Nintendo, and all roms to Metroid, Kirby, Mario, Zelda aka their own franchises have been removed.

What do you think about this?
Do you think they will target more?
Will they maybe target non rom sites?

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby TheGamingCats » Wed Jun 14, 2017 5:44 am

Fair use is our only weapon. Also, it should be fine as long as you dont make money off it.

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby Snessy the duck » Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:08 am

Well, distributing ROMs online is technically illegal as far as I know.

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby timocomsmbx2345 » Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:38 am

Snessy the duck wrote:Well, distributing ROMs online is technically illegal as far as I know.
So is those 24/7 Spongebob streams that nearly flooded your recommendations on youtube.

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby Mable » Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:43 am

Snessy the duck wrote:Well, distributing ROMs online is technically illegal as far as I know.
That is right, it's just strange that they did this just now and not long before
timocomsmbx2345 wrote: So is those 24/7 Spongebob streams that nearly flooded your recommendations on youtube.
You can't compare that with roms, idk how it's handled on youtube but there are sites which allow streaming tv shows like netflix for example.

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby timocomsmbx2345 » Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:47 am

Mable wrote:
Snessy the duck wrote:Well, distributing ROMs online is technically illegal as far as I know.
That is right, it's just strange that they did this just now and not long before
timocomsmbx2345 wrote: So is those 24/7 Spongebob streams that nearly flooded your recommendations on youtube.
You can't compare that with roms, idk how it's handled on youtube but there are sites which allow streaming tv shows like netflix for example.
With the ability of monetization, which means making money from streams, the people who made these spongebob streams are making money from those episodes, which is illegal by the way.

Maybe you should look at this to see what I'm talking about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX3mc-MZN68

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby Mable » Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:57 am

You shouldn't worry about that. They will be sued soon or later and have to face the consequences.

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby timocomsmbx2345 » Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:02 pm

Mable wrote:You shouldn't worry about that. They will be sued soon or later and have to face the consequences.
I know; whenever i see one of those streams, i just click on the "not interested" button.

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby DJFMHD » Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:17 pm

I'm gonna have to go through hell to get all the roms I want on my computer now.

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby Knux » Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:18 pm

they'll come back up. remember when nintendo tried to take down smbx? because that worked........

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby Thehelmetguy1 » Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:39 pm

Not surprised by that. Nintendo HATES roms

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby Mable » Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:43 pm

Knux wrote:they'll come back up. remember when nintendo tried to take down smbx? because that worked........
Of course they will just probably on a different site. You can't really stop people from uploading them, it's basically the same with Pokemon Uranium and the metroid fan game from last year.
thehelmetguy1 wrote:Not surprised by that. Nintendo HATES roms
I just wonder why they waited so long to do it.. they kinda just did it before/after announcing their new games which basically have been Kirby, Metroid etc

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby Knux » Wed Jun 14, 2017 1:11 pm

fun fact SMB1 on the virtual console is a rom. nintendo going after themselves next

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby ElectriKong » Wed Jun 14, 2017 2:03 pm

Knux wrote:they'll come back up. remember when nintendo tried to take down smbx? because that worked........
They did get what they want. It basically stopped SMBX from developing for 5 years (although Redigit did kind of stop developing before the C and D). Also, SMBX is not a ROM.

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby DJFMHD » Wed Jun 14, 2017 2:06 pm

Knux wrote:they'll come back up. remember when nintendo tried to take down smbx? because that worked........
Emuparadise specifically said they were not going to be be put back on that site.

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby Amine Retro » Wed Jun 14, 2017 4:38 pm

it's bizzare how they mentioned nothing about it in their twitter...

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Re: Is Nintendo now hunting down romsites?

Postby kr4k1n » Wed Jun 14, 2017 4:49 pm

If they've targeted Emuparadise, it's no doubt they're looking for other sites that have ROMs


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