Eurogamer: Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us?

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daredevil.shark said:

RavenXtra said:
Why is it "really disappointing"?

Nintendo owns the IP and created the game. Its a little lazy that whoever was tasked with creating the VC version didn't have a copy to dump the ROM from on-hand, but I'm not really sure how this affects people.

Technically this makes Nintendo a pirate. And I think I will buy Zelda botw and rip it in my PC to play (just like Nintendo I am not doing anything illegal).

Nope, it doesn't technically make Nintendo a pirate. A copy isn't tagged legal or illegal per se, it becomes illegal if the one using or downloading it doesn't have the rights to do so. Nintendo is the owner of the IP, they can copy unmodified ROMs of their games as much as they want and give someone else the right to do so. Only if the copy was modified, than the modifications get the copyright of the one who did it (if the modifications actually fulfill copyright rules just reformatting or technical changes don't cut it).