Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 

Maybe the Nokia Conversations video about emulators wasn't such a good idea.

Nintendo's new piracy tsar takes on Nokia
New legal team to investigate copyright infringement


Nintendo's senior UK PR manager Robert Saunders said: "We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place."


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http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming...n-nokia-654330

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 

Oh **** that's bad news. :(
I'm a big nintendo fan but I also know that games that aren't older than 20 years still need to be bought(or at least the license) if you want to emulate them legally. However, if you have the copy of the game in your bookshelf, (e.g. I have a lot of old SNES games at home) it is not prohibited to emulate the .snes files in all kind of emulators, so emulating can't really be prohibited.

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 

its not about n900 the site techradar was just using n900 as a example if you look nintendo guy does not mention nokia once techradar do all the mentioning of nokia and added a sentence in the middle of quotes making it look misleading , any way just load up all emus on you n900 quickly in case they get pulled from the repo

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 

I'm not a lawyer, but it sounds like rubbish to me. Emulators have existed and been written and produced and used for decades. I've written a couple myself. I'm not aware of any emulator being successfully shot down by IP lawyers.

Obviuosly ROMs and the games themselves (for game emulators) is a completely different story. Going for the emulators won't help the IP lawyers though.

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 

It is about Nokia. Did you read the techradar link?

Independent also says it is about N900:

Videogaming giant Nintendo has instructed its legal team to look at whether a move to emulate its older consoles on a mobile phone will infringe its copyright.

A blog post by Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia shows a video of its N900 smartphone containing buttons that, when pressed, appear to open emulators for, among others, Nintendo's Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, NES and SNES.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...t-1828267.html

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 

heres full article i will hilight nintendo guys quotes in bold and mention of nokia in red
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Nintendo aims to get tough on piracy (and touch on the causes of piracy) with its new 'piracy tsar' looking very closely at possible copyright infringements related to Nintendo games on mobile phones this month.

Nintendo's legal beagles are looking at those phones that are able to run emulators of older Nintendo consoles.

Nokia's N900 smartphone, for example can run emulators for Nintendo's Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, NES and SNES. We know this, because Nokia advertises the fact on its own website!

IP is key

Nintendo's senior UK PR manager Robert Saunders said: "We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place."

To be fair, the Nokia video hosted on its website does make it clear that [B]"some emulators require separate ROM images to play games" and that "Most publishers allow individual title usage provided that the user is in possession of the original title."

TechRadar has contacted Nokia for a response to this story. Stay tuned for updates.
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as you can see not once does nintendo mention nokia only the guy writing article does and adds is own lines to beginning of quotes to mislead, its just a nothing story again

edit: even the independent link says nothing about nokia what nintendo have said other than they will look at the video, it will all come to nothing

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 

Don’t worry, Nokia will use the money from Apple prosecution to pay Nintendo.
With linux it’s impossible to stop emulations. Nokia should just take the emulaters from their sites. Maemo community is another story. Community is not nokia territory. They can’t put every one of us in trial…
This will be very good publicityfor N900.

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 

First rule about the fight club, you don't talk about the fight club.

Nintendo is suing Nokia, not maemo. I think they know their games are emulated on every handheld and portable device out there. But it's another thing to adveertise that!

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 

Emulators are also on the droid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W65pOlUGLxM

so I see nintendo going after google before they set their sites on nokia

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 

Meh, that's just something to make headlines. I guess "Nintendo sues Marat Fayzullin [the guy who made the vgba emu]" doesn't sound interesting enough to publish. Even if they do have a case, nokia has no part in this, they're suing the driver because his car somehow infringes IP