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