Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us?

Re:Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us? by drcode on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:00PM (#13447956)

There's nothing legally wrong with it, but it's hypocritical for them to benefit from services provided by hobbyists while at the same time vilifying those hobbyists.

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Re:Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us? by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:25PM (#13448060)

Indeed, the wrong here is from a moral perspective, not legal.

Although, well… a ROM may be a derivative of an illegal copy of Nintendo's original work, but does that prevent copyright nonetheless applying to the derivative? If it doesn't, then there's probably a threshold-of-originality thing applying (the header is tiny and its content obvious), but I do wonder.

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Re:Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us? by flycaliguy on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:15PM (#13448742)

I don't see any moral fault in taking a file which has robbed the company of significant yen and then using it to save a bit of yen.

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