Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Nov 2007 23:14 UTC
Nintendo has reportedly decided to stop all repairs of the original Nintendo after 24 years of support, Agence France Presse reported on Friday. A spokesperson said that the company has decided to end support due to increasingly short supplies of replacement parts. The iconic game system was sold as the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US and Europe, and as the Famicom in Japan. Nintendo's Ken Toyoda said that while the company is sad to turn its back on the NES, the company wanted its legions of loyal fans to focus on the Wii, currently the best selling next-generation console worldwide.
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Copyright doesn't end until some number of years after the death of the author, or at least a very long time (I'd have to verify what it currently is, and there's some variation amongst the signature countries, which is most of the planet) and has zero to do with whether or not it's "supported" as that has no legal merit whatsoever towards copyright. Trademarks that aren't defended are potentially lost, and if they're defended properly and renewed, can go on indefinitely: copyright is something that's given, and can't be merely swept aside because you don't care that the originators of the work don't "support" it anymore.
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2006-12-06
since when has copyright been dependent on hardware support????