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Seems like every quarter there’s news of ROM sites getting picked off. Why aren’t people rushing to change hosting to Russia or some other country that doesn’t care about wester IP laws
I don't think this was an IP cease and desist issue, just a person who kept stepping on their own feet to refuse to create a plan for handing off the day to day to other people.
Yeah, these aren’t ROMs, they’re just ROM hacks. I don’t think any copyright law can stop you from distributing these because they’re just slight changes to the original code - if they could, then any Action Replay/Gameshark/region bypass devices would’ve already been banned.
It doesn't matter what's legal, it matters what you actually want to challenge in court or not.
Nintendo has shut down a romhack before (Project M - smash bros Wii mod). Even though you needed to have access to a legit copy to play it the way they tell you to on their website.
They're even shutting down emulators that don't include proprietary bios stuff that you're "supposed" to rip off your own console. They shut down Nintendo Switch emulators.