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Earlier this year, in September, Urho Konttori, Project Manager at Nokia, showed off a Super Nintendo emulator called DrNokSnes on his Nokia N900. The first sentence of my article highlighting that demonstration was: “The amount of lawyers with dollar bills in their eyes right now is astronomically large.” It didn’t take long for Nintendo to spot Nokia’s mistake, and now they’re being investigated. Nintendo Senior Public Relations Manager for the UK, Robert Saunders, said: “We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team wille examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.” Nokia has already taken down one video, but Urho’s is still up on YouTube. There will be people arguing against this, saying “ROMs are legal!”, but if we’re all honest with each other, we know you get ROM files from shady bit torrent sites or bulletin boards. At least I do.
[Via: The Independent, Slashdot]
About The Author
Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
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