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mahuti:
Exactly what I'm saying. Atari asked him not to, so he didn't
Star Roms bought *some* rights from atari. They told HIM to find the roms himself.
SO, what I am hoping is that StarRoms secures rights to distribute the roms, and gets it from that guy. I'm not *blaming* him. He's been doing the right thing all along.
Magnet_Eye:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on February 20, 2004, 12:24:29 am ---In my experience the general public could care less about copyright, intellectual property, or anything like that. The only people I have ever met who really care about this stuff are heavy internet users (who very often have a double standard about the whole thing, not mentioning any names here), and someone I know who owns a small recording studio (who also seems to have a flawed understanding of the laws, because he believes it is illegal to record anything under any circumstances).
Heck, my mom has trouble understanding why it could possibly be illegal to download music, copy movies, or burn copies of those crappy slot machine games she buys to give to her co-workers.
Joe Public does not care about these issues at all, and never did. I used to care a little, but not anymore. When the corporate suits started buying laws I stopped caring. The real issue (in my mind) is that record companies are now suing teenagers for downloading songs, which is absolutely no different than what they were doing before mp3s, which was copying tapes and taping things off the radio.
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I have to somewhat agree with you. Especially when it comes to music. Many forget that the recording industry was sued (and lost) for price fixing. Basically, they have been RIPPING US OFF the whole time, and now we are supposed to be concerned with downloading MP3's? They are the biggest hypocrites of all. Gimmie a break.
Also, copying/sharing a digital format of a song is NOT the same as stealing a cd from the store. A CD from a store has actual material cost involved. They had to pay workers, advertisers, printers, shippers, etc. to get that CD out. With mp3's they did nothing at all. They didn't rip the CD, they didn't spend any time to develop software to rip the CD or to play the MP3's. So, I wouldn't really say the are losing anything...rather they aren't gaining. They see mp3's as potential money out of their pockets. Screw them! They are still charging us the same price for cd's when cd technology started in the 80's, and we all know the costs have gone down 1000% to produce them.
/rant >:(
Man, this subject always gets going.. we should have a board just for copyright discussion. Sorry to go offtopic.
Star Roms? Hell yeah. It's a start. But it's too early to tell what is gonna happen if you ask me.
:-*
Edgedamage:
Well I have a friend that works at a pressing plant. And the journey the cd makes from the pressing room to the silk screening room to the packaging room and to the loading dock. The whole journey costs less than $4 per disk. And that was 1995's costs they are less now.
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: Edgedamage on March 01, 2004, 07:30:08 pm ---Well I have a friend that works at a pressing plant. And the journey the cd makes from the pressing room to the silk screening room to the packaging room and to the loading dock. The whole journey costs less than $4 per disk. And that was 1995's costs they are less now.
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It has to be WAY less than that. Go into the store and look around, you will likely find some (shovelware, and classical music) CDs priced at $1.99. If they can sell them at that price then the actual cost has to be pennies.
Kilgore:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on February 19, 2004, 03:12:38 am ---And then they go out of business, and you are stuck with no proof that you ever even bought your roms in the first place.
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It appears that have attempted to address this issues. As found buried in the help section (http://www.starroms.com/support/help.php#8):
--- Quote --- If I purchase ROMs from StarROMs, how will I be able to prove my license is valid?
StarROMs offers our customers the ability to generate a digitally signed email documenting the licenses issued to you by StarROMs. You can print this out as proof of your license. The secure digital signature proves that StarROMs sent the email, should this ever come into question. This feature is available under Your Account. Furthermore, StarROMs keeps records of all licenses granted.
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