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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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Not surprised by that. Nintendo HATES roms

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

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

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.

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.

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

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