'I found something almost as great as finding the emulators existed in the first place. Even when a Nintendo game isn't for sale, it's still the company's intellectual property, and it can enforce its copyright if it wants. According to Nintendo's official site, ROMs and video game emulation also represent 'the greatest threat to date to the intellectual property rights of video game developers,' and 'have the potential to significantly damage' tens of thousands of jobs. Nintendo owns the intellectual property for its games, and when people pirate them instead of buying a Nintendo Super NES Classic Edition or a downloading a copy from one of its digital storefronts, it can argue it's losing money. We always assumed that as long as we comply with take down requests, especially for obsolete content like the stuff we have, it was going to be okay. We have not received anything different recently but the lawsuit was a strong signal to us that these companies will not stop at anything to bring down sites like ours. Initially it was game companies or the ESA. 'Some of them are directly sent to our hosts. 'We have been receiving an ever increasing number of takedown notices,' MasJ, the 30-year-old software consultant in India who started EmuParadise, told me.

On Wednesday, another big, 18-year-old ROM site, EmuParadise, said it would no longer be able to allow people to download old games due to ' potentially disastrous consequences.'Įven though Nintendo has every right to enforce its copyrights, Kovačević's story makes me sad to see the company lately go after ROM sites, named after the acronym for 'read-only memory,' which hobbyists 'dumped' from the original cartridges onto computers to create ROM images-digital copies, in other words. In July, Nintendo sued two popular ROM sites, LoveROMS and, for what it called “ brazen and mass-scale infringement of Nintendo’s intellectual property rights.” Both sites have since shut down. I don't know if I would have the job I do now if I hadn't had access to ROM sites or piracy.' 'My first games writing job was for a retro corner of a Serbian magazine, which essentially was the start of my long road towards gamedev. 'I am sure the number of games I've gone through thanks to ROM sites has been in the four digits,' he said.

Kovačević said that he probably would still have an interest in games without ROMs, which allow people to emulate console games on computers, but that he wouldn't understand them as well.

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