Nokia got in trouble with Nintendo for showing off SNES on the N900 [Maemo]

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]