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shateredsoul:

Interesting.. thew website I was thinking of sells the roms on media and harddrives. I didn't mention their website because I know it's against policy here but also because I don't want to cause them any trouble.  I was just honestly curious how they were still around after a year.

Dizzle:

I wonder what the economic impact on some smaller companies would be if anyone decided to really come down hard on the kind of sites you mention.    If roms were extremely hard to come by, would there still be as much demand for products made by GroovyGameGear or Ultimarc?  I'm sure they would still get business, but I imagine that it probably wouldn't be anywhere near as much.  The whole retro gaming solution would probably be a lot smaller than it is now.

Just a thought.

ubiquityman:


--- Quote from: lilshawn on March 06, 2010, 02:17:56 pm ---in Canada (since we pay a copyright levy on the writable media) if you make a copy of a disk (even one you don't own or procured through ill gotten means) so long as you don't have to circumvent any copy protection on the media, it is absolutely legal to copy it. this levy makes it *legal* to copy audio CD's for personal use. Commercially selling copied audio CD's is still (obviously) illegal. It does not matter whether you own the original sound recording (on any medium), you can legally make a copy for your own private use.

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None of that applies to ROMs though.

lilshawn:


--- Quote from: ubiquityman on March 07, 2010, 01:54:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: lilshawn on March 06, 2010, 02:17:56 pm ---in Canada (since we pay a copyright levy on the writable media) if you make a copy of a disk (even one you don't own or procured through ill gotten means) so long as you don't have to circumvent any copy protection on the media, it is absolutely legal to copy it. this levy makes it *legal* to copy audio CD's for personal use. Commercially selling copied audio CD's is still (obviously) illegal. It does not matter whether you own the original sound recording (on any medium), you can legally make a copy for your own private use.

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None of that applies to ROMs though.

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well if you think about it, i kinda does...it sets a legal precedent.

the way the law is, it (currently) it doesn't specify what (if any) information is contained on the original medium. ROMs although in their original state are an unusual medium, are still a form of recording, and albeit an unusual recording requiring unusual machine to extract it...DOES NOT however, require any sort of "code breaking" or "disassembly" or "circumvention" to be able to procure that copy... therefore making a copy of it for your own personal use is absolutely legal regardless of how the original came to be.

Havok:

Shhhhhhh!

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