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Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video

Posted by Soulskill on from the super-mario-takedown dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"

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  1. Re:Dear Nintendo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're incredibly stupid. Property rights mean that Nintendo can do whatever they want with their intellectual property - including lock it in a nuclear bunker so nobody can play it.

    You don't think that Nintendo's rights are "fair"? Tough - you don't own Nintendo's property. The same way that I don't own yours.

    For example, I'll pretend to be you, you be Nintendo:

    Your house is not used while you're not home. Therefore, you must have no objection to me sleeping in your living room while you're not home. So either let me into your house, or shut up about me breaking in while you're not home.

    (Also, I'll be around tomorrow to use your computer while you're watching TV.)

    So, in short: just as I can't use your property without your permission, you can't use Nintendo's intellectual property without their permission. That's the way it works. Period.

  2. Still waiting for decent Pokemon iPhone app! by ad454 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would gladly pay for any app that would let me run something similar to the Pokemon DS/DSi games on the iPhone. I had high hopes for the DS emulator on the iPhone, but it did not allow one to run any real DS game roms on it, and Apple immediately yanked it off the app store soon after it was released.

    Maybe, the authors of the DS emulator would eventually consider putting a non-crippled version of their DS emulator onto the Cydia store. Or better yet, maybe Nintendo might release their games to the iPhone/iTouch platform, since they are no longer interested in making any non-trival (DS, DS Lite, DSi, ...) changes to their existing outdated handheld gaming platform in more than 5 years since the original DS was launched in Nov 2004.

    Definitely worth a few bucks to avoid having to carry separate Nintendo game and Apple phone devices for my Pokemon fix.