benny1967 : I agree about the lack of information on this matter.

There are tons of emulators for other devices, for instance I have a gb emulator on my current mobile phone which runs under Java and they never had any problems with Nintendo.
There have been Nintendo emulators for years, and even the most recent ones (Dolphin, which emualtes the NGC and the Wii) don't seem to have any legal problems.

I think Nokia's big mistake was officialy advertising classic gaming on the N900 in one of their Presentation videos. However, I doubt that there will be any problems for Nokia.

As Quim said, the members of the community that this directly affected, the authors of said packages as well as community council, were informed about it.

The action taken wasn't because of a simple article either.

It was late on a Friday afternoon/evening when this all came down... not exactly the best time for these sorts of issues. They decided to act fast with the knowledge they had. Also, as I said previously when there's a possibility of legal problems, you don't usually go out and talk about it all over the place.

The most important things here is that:

a) Action was taken swiftly.
b) All involved were easy to get a hold of,
c) All involved agreed to the action taken.

If there's anything else the community needs to know, Quim and Peter will tell us.

I'm sorry there's not some big news announcement about the takedown of the emulators. This is probably down to the fact that a decision has probably yet to be made as to whether or not the emulators should be in Extras on a permanent basis.

Let's see what Monday brings, okay?

This doesn't affect me, but thank you for telling us what you can, Zerojay. Tough day for you, no doubt.

I've compiled all the emulators into 1 file for ease of download.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NPEBODE2

Note: I have just uploaded the file so it may be a while before megaupload lets you download.

You should put this link in the other thread, not this one...

I'm respectfully requesting that anyone mirroring classic-gaming-wallpapers to please remove the package until we know what's going to happen with the Nintendo issue, thank you.

which thread ?

The one you started
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35385

This one is about the problems Nintendo might cause, if I understand correctly.

The DMCA only applies to the USA and countries that were bullied into accepting the DMCA by the USA. (and sadly more may follow if the ACTA treaty is signed).

It hate Nintendo! <-- VERY CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICS