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Hephaestos on 30 May 2011
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thismeintiel said:
Hephaestos said:
thismeintiel said:
KylieDog said:
Hephaestos said:

good, these were paid emulators ^^ which is piracy i'm really against.


If they were just emulators it is not piracy.  Your comments makes no sense anyway, if they were free it wouldn't be piracy somehow?

It would be piracy of tech.  However, this is only illegal if the HW patents were still active.  I do know that the patents for the 16-bit consoles, and those that came before them, have all expired.  This is why Nintendo and/or Sega can do nothing to stop the sales of products that can play NES, SNES, and Genesis cartridges.  I'm not sure about 5th gen consoles and on, though.  Which is why I don't get why they would take ALL of them down.  Only the newer ones are questionable.

nint's website says patents are 70 years ^^

For HW, I'm pretty sure it's only 20 years.  Copyright and trademarks last for 95 years, or so I've read. 

then the N64 is definitely not over that and I believe neither is the SNES  (it's 91 no), at least when they released these emus.



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