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That doesn't seem to stop Nintendo from shutting down ROM sites left and right. For example, emuparadise has complied and taken down all ROMs: https://www.emupa
by city41 6y ago
That doesn't seem to stop Nintendo from shutting down ROM sites left and right. For example, emuparadise has complied and taken down all ROMs: https://www.emuparadise.me/emuparadise-changing.php https://www.emuparadise.me/emuparadise-changing.php
But here is a complete NES ROM set, just sitting there, on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/NESrompack https://archive.org/details/NESrompack
I just find it strange. Nintendo is vehement about their IP. For archive.org to get an exception doesn't make sense to me.
- Paul-ish 6y agoYou raise good points. I wonder what a copyright lawyer would have to say.
- scintill76 6y ago(IANAL) Circumventing DRM is usually illegal under DMCA. That quote allows circumventing obsolete DRM. NES cartridge ROM data is still covered by copyright though. I don't know how archive.org gets away with that.