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How to legally purchase Mame ROMs
the3eyedblindman:
--- Quote from: the3eyedblindman on July 25, 2004, 07:19:22 pm ---Just buy them ilegally from a burner, who cares, its the easiest way, and probably how everyone else ( well most of them) on this website have gotten them.
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I guess i worded this wrong, considering i got a complaint from someone. You don't 'buy' the ROMs from a Laz burner, you request them. It's free, just send media and return postage. If not, you send them the money for the media and the postage, not the roms.
SirPoonga:
Still doesn't make a difference, from a legal standpoint that isn't going to fly :)
Knoxximus:
Ahhh, just leave well enough alone....hit up Lazurus, get you a rom set, then replace your front door with a steel reinforced concrete barrier so that when the Feds come to bust down YOUR door instead of the 2 other meth labs you live between, you have some time to eat your hard drive.
...sheesh......
Patent Doc:
Of course all of this discussion depends on your reason for wanting to obtain legal ROMS. If it is a moral decision for you, well then your only option that's guaranteed legal is to obtain a liscence for each and every game you want. On the other hand, if you are just paranoid you could try to obtain the ROMS from a burner (of course, I would NEVER suggest you do this as it is of course illegal and nobody here wants to break the law). But if you did want to obtain them, hypothetically of course, you could get a yahoo or hotmail account e-mail the the burner and have them send the ROMs to an address other than your home. ;D
enjoy
Howard_Casto:
I'm not particularly fond of burners, mainly on a moral standpoint.
Now I know that burners aren't supposed to be charging you and the price you pay is to cover the cds/dvds and the shipping but usually their price is about a buck or two higher than what it should be, or at least the average price I get when I look up good quality cds and calculate shipping.
They might just be making a buck or a quarter extra and not even realize it, but I have this thing about making money off of the back's of others and the fact that they might unintentially make some cash off of the deal doesn't set with me well.
Of course I can't tell you where and I'm not suggesting that you should steal roms, BUT if you need roms and are going to obtain them illegally then I suggest supporting various rom websites and newsgroups. Especially the latter as they are the one's that locate these hard to find roms that everyone else mooches off of and distributes all over cyberspace.
anway.....
I think these discussions are healthy. It's important, especially to newbies to fully understand some of the "grey" areas of this hobby. With that being said, legally at least it looks a little more black than grey imho but morally is another story all-together.