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| Singapura:
Maybe you didn't bother to read my post before you made your comment. Your type of postings made me stop bother about BYOAC at all. Let me put it in a single sentence with short words: I don't care at all. People can act all holier then thou and say they stay away from "illegal" roms. Truth is that it is impossible to know if you are breaking IP laws unless you get a legal opinion. Either you stay away completely or you don't care. Care to explain where you see the double talk? |
| ark_ader:
I used to be the champion for copyright protection, but after seeing the deluge of rom sites and the availability of whole ISO freely available on the internet, I can see my cause being a waste of time. I have also come to the conclusion that nothing is illegal, except obviously capital crimes. You can do anything you want. If you do get caught by the authorities, and under their rules you are found guilty of anything illegal, they have to prove it in court. Very expensive for them and you. Unless you are making a business selling DVDs of the stuff by the thousand, funding organized crime, I can see how something so innocent DVD burning can look. Other than capital crimes, civil matters are hard to pursue, especially if you do them in your own home. Who is to know? I come to this conclusion due to the lack of enforcement of copyright, as the activity is so widespread, the reality is not considered an issue. Stopping the sources, educating the young, lowering prices, the stopping of scalping on used games at retail outlets (especially at Christmas time) could help. It doesn't. It appears that anything not actively sold or protected, and completely unavailable to purchase, is fair game for personal use. I watched a person's YouTube video (who is active on these boards) demonstrating (advertising?) a front end software with thousands of games playable on the advertised product. Why this was done is beyond me, but it shows that this type of behavior is acceptable, and advertises that these roms are free to do as you wish. So what is free roms when you look at what is happening in society? Where are the morals that our parents taught us, and the values of doing what is right and just? |
| DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on December 03, 2011, 08:11:01 am ---Other than capital crimes, civil matters are hard to pursue, especially if you do them in your own home. Who is to know? --- End quote --- I guess you never heard of the RIAA... ??? |
| ark_ader:
--- Quote from: DaveMMR on December 03, 2011, 11:50:00 am --- --- Quote from: ark_ader on December 03, 2011, 08:11:01 am ---Other than capital crimes, civil matters are hard to pursue, especially if you do them in your own home. Who is to know? --- End quote --- I guess you never heard of the RIAA... ??? --- End quote --- And they haven't heard of me either. I pay for all my music and films. We are discussing roms not music or movies. Music and films is actively sold and reissued. You should be sued for thousands for procuring music and films you have not paid for. Code on the other hand is stolen every day. |
| ed12:
the best way around rom code is to ask to use it mod-it and offer to share it with the owner we all look at it the same way ie: we never know what is when we code it ie: mobo's/speed/hard-ware so my point is just to ask,very few will turn u down and yes code is easy to get for 1 example look at internet-data-base if a rom was copied it is posted there,lord know's i have tera-byte's of rom dump's it is the working code the fine line here is pepole who steal it and sell it and claim they wrote it that is where i get my nad's in a twist ed |
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