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<\/p>\nFor over a year, Nintendo keeps firing shotguns at ROM providers, suing the websites all over the world unapologetically. This September, the company is after RomUniverse, seeking over 2 million for copyright infringement.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, the actions of a global tech giant are legal and fully justified. On the other, the console is losing its core following as the die-hard fans want to keep in touch with the company\u2019s legendary titles that are no longer supported using emulators.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not about the fact that gamers are not willing to pay companies for their projects, not about the desire to pirate for the sake of the challenge. In this post, we\u2019ll explain why Nintendo attacks on emulation websites don\u2019t sit well with the company\u2019s customers.<\/p>\n
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In case you\u2019re not an avid Nintendo fan or new to the world of emulators, here\u2019s a short summary of the copyright infringement war the multi-billion company has been waging for some time now:<\/p>\n
It may seem the emulator providers are in the wrong here for pirating and publishing titles online. However, once you take a deeper look into it, you\u2019ll realize that, for most emulator website owners, keeping retro titles alive is not a commercial but a passion project.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a mission statement behind ROMs – here\u2019s how they contribute to the gaming universe.<\/p>\n
Nintendo stayed faithful to Super Mario Bros and will bring the\u00a0 title to the company\u2019s every console in the future. Such classic games are not in danger of being forgotten about anytime soon. Yet, there are other titles – with a smaller following, that carry a ton of artistic and tech value. What about Magnavox Odyssey<\/a>, Sega Genesis<\/a>, and many more obscure titles? How to ensure they don\u2019t go missing?<\/p>\n There are two ways to preserve rare media – collecting the rare physical copies or emulating the title to remotely save the experience. The first one has major disadvantages – when a single collector has the only copy of many retro titles, the risk of putting all of them in jeopardy due to an accident or a house fire increases.<\/p>\n Emulators may be piracy – a direct violation of the video game law<\/a> \u2013 yet, in the long run, they contribute to the preservation of the titles that are near and dear to our hearts by planting a higher number of easy-to-distribute game copies.<\/p>\n Suing ROM websites to the left and right, Nintendo America might have a hard time remembering that people in some countries are less privileged than in others, and some never had a chance to legally get a retro title.<\/p>\n Thanks to emulators, people from African countries, Asia, and Eastern Europe got to appreciate the retro video games<\/a>they never had access to by the time of release. While some websites charge users for downloading ROMs, it\u2019s a cheaper way to feed your inner geek than having to pay as much for every single title.<\/p>\n In its wave of lawsuits and allegations, Nintendo did not offer alternatives that could help gamers from different countries preserve and enjoy retro titles without piracy and copyright law violations.<\/p>\n Does Nintendo have a legal reason for every single one of these lawsuits? Sure. The fact, however, remains – gamers are backed into a corner, and the company keeps driving them further into the wall. If Nintendo would\u2019ve offered a digital marketplace with old best-sellers, sure, we\u2019ll all agree that emulation is illegal – no questions asked. Until that\u2019s the case, we are not sorry, Nintendo. We are just keeping our favorite video games alive at Killerroms.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For over a year, Nintendo keeps firing shotguns at ROM providers, suing the websites all over the world unapologetically. This September, the company is after RomUniverse, seeking over 2 million for copyright infringement. On the one hand, the actions of a global tech giant are legal and fully justified. On the other, the console is losing its core following as the die-hard fans want to keep in touch with the company\u2019s legendary titles that are no longer supported using emulators. It\u2019s not about the fact that gamers are not willing to pay companies for their projects, not about the desire <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6583],"tags":[5513,12174,1856,12173,1859],"yst_prominent_words":[9186,12161,12153,12169,12172,12162,12157,12151,12155,12168,12158,12160,12154,12156,12152,9047,12167,12159,12171,9803],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78580,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55736\/revisions\/78580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55736"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=55736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-17-at-8.18.42-AM-300x202.png\")
<\/p>\nSpreading the Passion Worldwide<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nSummary<\/h2>\n