cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote on July 10, 2018 at 4:51 PM

Is it copy protection, or is it protection against unlicensed games?

Moonside OP wrote on July 10, 2018 at 5:05 PM

I mean going by the Wikipedia definition

Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention and copy restriction, is any effort designed to prevent the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media, usually for copyright reasons.[1]

I would say it probably does qualify as copy protection of some sort, but I think a point was to use more easily prosecuted trademark law against less easily prosecuted piracy.

hollyhoppet wrote on July 10, 2018 at 7:10 PM

it's copy protection in the sense that if you distribute a pirate cartridge of a game that shows the nintendo logo on boot they have a stronger case in many courts against that piracy.