Nintendo Sues for More than $100 Million Over ROMs

cool roms dot com still the king baby you can eat my ass tryna sell me a 100 year old game I bought twice already

If Nintendo actually put out its own ROMs so many less people would download them illegally.

Personally, I really okay with nintendo pursuing this. Piracy tends to have damaging, top down, long term effects, and ROM distribution sites are clearly thriving because internet law hasn't caught up yet. That said, piracy is usually the result of lack of availability. If nintendo executed a good solution for the availability problems that old games have, they wouldn't have to spend as much of their time dealing with piracy. However, them not addressing availability does not entitle us to steal the games either.

Good they're not going after Emuparadise, the best Rom site

Market harm yes, but how would it be market harm if they don't sell the game anymore ? Is it because they are bringing it back? Selling them again because if not then i wont stop

LoL, the switch doesn't make enough. We will bitch about it and take a someone else's money XD ! Welcome to Merica were we make no sense and neither does our Self Elected Shit Slinging Monkey of a Leader! Hahahaaaaa

again i'm on both sides

Ok first of all, the most important part of a lawsuit is proving monetary harm. Nintendo would have to establish they are losing money from these sites making Roma available. The problem with that is there is no evidence these sites have hurt demand for Nintendo’s games to any real level. At least not to the point where Nintendo’s supply is not meeting demand.

Fun fact, that anti piracy ad "you wouldn't steal a car" used pirated music they did not have permission to use. enjoy your day

Who wants to bet that at some point during the development of any of their mini consoles, they needed a copy of an old game (glitches and all), but they didn't have it for whatever reason and went to one of these sites to get a copy?

Nintendo has never been good at sharing their games, even with youtube/twitch. so idk if they complain about rom sites.

most of the ROMs i get are GBA and original DS games. mostly because their just not manufacturing them anymore. and there is no way i can get some of the ROMs I want currently. Like Pokemon Typing Adventure, not going to see that anywhere but the internet, and the only way I can get it is through a used copy. By then someone has already bought the game directly from Nintendo and I can't support them with buying a used copy either since all that money goes right to the re-seller. If Nintendo makes a downloadable copy I can play, I will. I have done that with the first gen Pokemon, now I just need the rest on my Switch. I am such a sucker for re-buying games, if its there for me to buy that is. (Nintendo, please give us Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD on the Switch)