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*Lots of ROM sites taken down by Nintendo. Funny thing is they allegedly downloaded and sold a rom back to customers[https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us]. In 2018, Nintendo vs LoveROMs - Verdict handed down, site owners ordered to pay $12m to Nintendo.[https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/9wofa3/nintendo_vs_loveroms_verdict_handed_down_site/] In the same year, EmuParadise has removed all ROMs from its website, effective immediately after the news of Nintendo filing a lawsuit against two similar sites, LoveROMs and LoveRETRO. The site is still available and you can visit it right now but without the benefit of being able to download many retro games, many of which came from Nintendo.[https://old.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/95o8sv/emuparadise_removes_all_roms_to_avoid_legal/] After emuparadise removed all the roms on their website in August, Romshepherd is closed. The site was already targeted by dns-blocking in August (at least from Italy) following a Nintendo legal initiative. Topcatroms, his brother torrent tracker faced the same destiny. Also 4chan removed the forum about emulators and Pleasuredome, a torrent tracker mainly focused on mame roms but also with console related content removed all the torrents with Nintendo stuff.[https://gbatemp.net/threads/romshepherd-is-gone-other-sites-followed.525986/] In 2019, Nintendo has won a lawsuit against a ROM-hosting website called RomUniverse.[https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/nq8smr/compiled_list_of_articles_about_romuniverse_and/] In May 15, 2024 Nintendo of America has requested for 717 games and their images to be removed from Vimm - The Vault[https://vimm.net/bbs/?p=viewPost&Post=33301].