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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2006-02-11
I'm sure they are, whether it's music, books or TV shows they've always been allowed to preserve them. When the DMCA came along though the way it was written unintentionally made it illegal for them to do so, which is why they had to go back and add the exception.
This isn't going to make them freely distributable though, they are still copyrighted and it will still be illegal for people to share or download them.
Edited 2007-11-06 02:58