![]() “The LoveROMs website alone receives 17 million visitors each month. Nintendo argues that the high traffic of both websites has generated the owners a lot of money out of the illegal distribution of other people’s work and intellectual property: There are thousands of ROM websites out there, so why has Nintendo picked on LoveROMs and LoveRETRO in particular? The answer is simple enough. On top of the hefty fines, Nintendo is asking for a handover of the two domain names and the sources of all of their ROMs. Nintendo is asking for statutory damages of $150,000 for each Nintendo game hosted on either site and up to $2,000,000 for every trademark infringement. The lawsuit isn’t just asking for the shut down of both websites, however. ![]() The 27-page filing, handily uploaded by TorrentFreak, offers a damning verdict on the two websites. Indeed, Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against two well-known ROM websites today.īoth LoveROMs and LoveRETRO have been on the receiving end of a copyright lawsuit. Nintendo doesn’t like console and game emulation. Different people have different ideas on the morality of game ROMs. ![]() Especially when it comes to older titles. While it makes perfect sense that a developer wouldn’t want to see its games made available for free download on PC or mobile phones, there is an argument for game preservation. The ethics of game emulation is a tricky subject.
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