Nintendo is erasing its history - The war against ROMS

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It's not just ROMs either. Nintendo once also tried to get old Nintendo Power issues taken off Internet Archive even though they themselves offer no way to view them. Nintendo would rather burn their own history than let people see it for free.

I believe people should back up every single Nintendo game in existence. Nintendo doesn’t care about history.

Nintendo when you download a game that hasn't been in stores for over two decades: "I'm never gonna financially recover from this."

They hit Vimms Lair and I'm never forgiving them for that. It was my GO TO

Disney ruined the copyright law. It should last for as long as patent do, not a single year longer. Now we live in a dystopia where things only go to public domain after a century. Thanks, disney.

Knowing Nintendo are removing roms from all over the place makes me want to download them all.

I can understand not wanting your work to be stolen, but being against preservation is just absurd.

I am a game dev. our previous studio where we made 2 games at before it shut down due to poor management, abandoned both games that we made for android and IOS, both were taken off due to lack of updates, what preserved it and kept access to them and practically saved our portfolio. APk websites. as basic as that, these 2 games were very important to everyone who was involved with em. game preservation is extremely important. to everyone out there who thinks this is not real. imagine, if those cartridges degrade quicker and there was no emulation or backups, all of those games from 30 years ago would have been forgotten and lost. everything, proof?! look at my abandonware, many games like Nocturne would have been lost to time and no one would have known about it if it wasn't heros like the people managing that site working with the community to restore drivers and get things running on modern hardware. you got no idea how many gems are lost in time due to hardware limitation. my current library of DS is inaccessible to me cause both my DSes are 100% dead and currently got no cash flow to just go and buy a "new" DS. game preservation is important for us and the many generations to come.

People don't realize how many of the early films were lost to history because of cellulose degradation and copiers being rare, we should be glad it's so easy to dump copy and run software on a emu

Queue Gabe Newell quote: “One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. ...... The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”

These attempts to remove rom sites just encourages more people to download roms. The Fear of Missing Out is a real thing, and people will mass download roms as quickly as they can to preserve it from future shutdowns.

The irony of them using roms that were dumped by people in the scenes WAY back in the day makes it so much worse. They have sold people roms of their own games that they try to sue people for distributing, while selling that file that they technically don't have the rights to sell. They engage in digital counterfeiting and want you to keep giving them money. I haven't bought a Nintendo game in 7 years and I never plan to again. Look at the release of the NES and SNES Classic though. People ripped the roms from them and proved in the headers that they were identical to the widely traded roms of those games for many years.

Nintendo tried making renting games illegal in the 80's. Now, they are renting the games to you directly by NSO. The tables have turned in their favor just as they wanted. If I need server authentication to play my games, I really don't own them. I am slowly turning to modded consoles to really own my games.

What brings me joy about Nintendo's struggle to rid their roms from the internet is that they will never ever succeed. The deep seas of the internet will ensure they will always fail and thus are only succeeding in hurting their own public image.

Never underestimate a Japanese corporation's ability to absolutely annihilate its own history.

The problem is that copyright is far too long. 20+ year old games shouldn't be protected, at least to distribute copies of the original.

They can try. I have a clean 1:1 backup of every single game released in North America from the NES to N64 and Game Boy to NDS. And I'm not the only one. Data hoarders will preserve video game history. We got you fam.

Maybe that's what happened to the Library of Alexandria, the Romans decided that all those books had breached copyright rules.

This kind of message needs to be stronger yet. Copyright law, as it stands, is lopsided and absurd, only serving the PERCEIVED benefit of a few powerful players in the industry who claim imaginary loses to justify their undeserved level of protection and control, while BSing everyone involved, and society at large, into thinking this is is the just thing to do and it benefits society. The DMCA is a disgrace. So much damage and pain has been caused in the name of copyright that I don't care to hear arguments in favor of the status quo or of making little meaningless adjustments to it anymore. Let the ROMs flow! You brought this upon yourselves.