Re: [NTLK] Nintendo Emulator Legal Trouble

From: josh musket (jmusket_at_nmu.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 09:34:21 PST


Matt Binkowski wrote:

>reprinted from slashdot:
>"Looks like Nintendo has recently been granted a patent that gives them
>new leverage in their fight against emulators: Patent 6,672,963 mainly
>appears to cover emulators like UltraHLE that are custom-tailored for
>particular games, but they're already using it to suppress a new Game
>Boy Advance emulator for the Tapwave Zodiac, Firestorm gbaZ , and
>there's no reason to think they won't start leveraging it against
>anyone else trying to emulate their systems." The reprinted lawyer's
>letter from Nintendo also notes: "Whether you have an authentic game or
>not, it is illegal to copy a Nintendo game from a cartridge or to
>download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet."
>http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/12/0342208&mode=thread
>
>matt
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>
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looks like people will just have to start breaking the law. oh goodness
/sarcasm

josh

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