ROMhacking.net Moves to News Only, Database and File Archive Released to Internet Archive

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This is Nintendo’s fault somehow, isn’t it?
- Not likely, though there are plenty of reasons to hate them still.
A true end of an era. So glad to see the file database get dropped on internet archive.
Copyright pressures increased dramatically with takedowns and legal burden. The site shifted from serving mostly contributing humans to bots and overzealous people abusing resources. They drowned everybody else out.

This is a very diplomatic way of blaming Nintendo and other companies without specifically naming them.
Bye. From what I've heard that site and it's community were pretty garbage anyway; which was why SimpleFlips started romhacking.com.