Now, clicking on a link to Bimmy shows “This app is currently not available in your country or region.” This time, it wasn’t Apple that removed it but the developer. Over on MacRumors’ forums, the developer said it pulled the app “out of fear.” “No one pressured me to, but I got more nervous about it as the day went on,” it wrote.
If those emulator is open source, can user build and install themselves ? or they have to wait for some dev to put it in the store (and pay Apple $99 yearly) and charge fee and/or ads.
I mean, the most that Nintendo would do is send a cease and desist…
I doubt they would go straight to filing court documents. The cease and desist is meant to save time and costs for them and even then they still haven’t officially filed anything in court.
But I understand not even wanting to get on the radar of a big corporation like that.
Right. But there is no copyright infringement in an NES emulator, as long as no copyrighted games are distributed.
Emulation itself is not copyright infringement.
The recent issue with the Switch emulator was that they were distributing encryption keys along with the emulator. That wasn’t a copyright issue (encryption keys are not expression, therefore not copyrightable) but a CFAA issue. See other comments.
Using leaked source code or binary firmware blobs are other common reasons emulators can violate copyright. I don’t know if this emulator did any of those.
I highly doubt it. The NES has been completely reverse engineered for decades, there really isn’t any reason to use proprietary code for an emulator for it.
The NES is the most basic possible architecture you could imagine. There’s no source code to be leaked here, there’s nothing you would even call a BIOS.
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