SPC files and ROMS, legality...?

Nintendo took a serious stance on emulation of the SNES, despite that fact though, just type up SNES roms or SNES SPC's and some sites pop up at the top of the list. Later I think they changed things where you could legally keep ROM's but only of game carts you already had a physical copy of. But the sites have no ways of insuring that a person with Super Mario World, actually has the actual cart.

Did Nintendo just decided to give up on that? I have an emulator and some ROMS of games I have, just find it more convient replaying them on my computer, as I dont have room to hook up my SNES, which I dont have room for a TV with my computer desk in my den. Dont keep roms of all my games though, some games I have I wish I never had gotten, like The Rocketteer. Never got past that lame airplane race level. Should donate that cart to smash some stuff . com or something lol

Fun playing some of those old games, after reading the specs on the hardware, clock speeds of about 4 MHZ, and KB of RAM, not megs or gigs, but small kilobytes. Sound processor sequencing limited to like 16 tracks, and what some of the quality games they made with such limited hardware processing power.

Last SNES systems were made in 1999 I believe, when PC games like Diablo II became smash hits and the CD rom was even besting the N64, dispite PC's being pretty new yet, and the PS One only a 32 bit system.

Then when it comes to SPC dumps, SPC's are 64kb audio songs of SNES games, sites freely distribute them, and seen people use them in youtube videos. Winamp actually has a decoder to convert the spc file which is in SNES assembly into a form that a PC can play, you can then spit that SPC out into an MP3 if you like.

If some website ranked on the first page of a yahoo search ripped the sound track of a new Nine Inch Nails CD, you can bet the site would be shut down, web master sued on piracy charges, any visiters that downloaded songs there sued after IP logs of the site were taken of who downloaded what...

But seen sites distributing SPC files around for afew years now, people even using theme songs from games in videos and stuff in youtube and stuff. PC games I play now do allow using game songs in fan art/videos if its not for personal commercial gain, some even support contests making fan related videos made by players. Lots of game play videos on youtube, with themed music from games, dispite their stance on only using audio tracks that you made, unless allowed to, or risk video deletion/account termination, legality wise though...

Is Nintendo going to sue you because you put up a song from an old Final Fantasy game that you liked as a midi or MP3 on your website? You owned the game, extracted the spc, converted it to something that could play on a webpage such as a midi, wave or MP3... Lots of fan pages out there for games and even older games, with lots of screen shots, music tracks, videos, etc... Though with all the stir of people downloading MP3 albums off file sharing programs getting sued...

Where is the line drawn?

If someone makes a non commercial fan page on FF5, what are the chances of them getting a letter to report to court, with music tracks of the game and stuff. Game tips and whatnot, pictures, and info on an old classic, but not any links or downloads to the actual ROM.

Can Nintendo or the software maker that made the game that sold it to Nintendo, can they sue?