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thelevin8r:
These are my opinions, I could be wrong.
ANYTHING that has a copy write or trademark does not belong to you and can only be used as said by the creator. ANYTHING you say to the contrary is just to make you feel better as you go about your happy pirating. Unless the original owner of the copywrite material has given their blessings to use it, it is illegal. So, as far as I know, my MAME cab is violating copy rights to someone. Do I care? No. Do you care? Yes. Thats why your going to such lengths to draw lines to make you feel better and others are "going over the line". It's all over the line!
We need to understand and embrace these facts, don't hide.
Let me start.
I play most all emulated MAME but only own one arcade game PCB, and I AM PROUD! I will continue to run emulated console games that I enjoy even though I only own a few Coleco and Atari games, and will feel no remorse.
I know that I am violating copy write laws and I am not afraid to day it. Looks like I am the only one
Howard_Casto:
It's not a matter of fearing the law, it's a matter of being respectful towards the authors of the games. A team of developers put their time effort and creative genius into all of these games. It's not a matter of what is legal or illegal, it's a matter of what's right and wrong.
If you can sleep at night stealing from the mouths of the loley programmer who made a great console game a few months ago only to have you steal it instead of doing the right thing and forking over the modest price for it then more power to ya.
Difference between stealing new games/roms and old ones is stealing the old one's doesn't hurt the company who made them or the programmers who were paid to make them. The games are dead. they are no longer in production and they can no longer be purchased in the first hand market.
Yes we all steal roms in the legal sense but most of us have enough respect to draw the line when it comes to new console games and arcade games that are less than a year old.
The copyright laws need to be changed in such a way that the actual rom image is physical property and the code and artwork inside is intellectual property only until it is transferred to a physical medium. That way the developers could be happy as they could hold life time rights to the characters and the source code and emu guys could be happy as it could be setup that the physical rom could be made public domain after so many years as long as it's not used specifically to make profit, similar to how they do stock footage now. Until such legislation is put into effect we will all happily bend the law. But that doesn't mean we have to lose our sense of what's right and what's wrong.
Demon-Seed:
HI
Well I can see that I started a little bit of a ---smurfette--- fest..ehheheh..but no one actually posted any sites.. :( ah well.
rampy:
you got enough clues... but here you go..
http://www.effinspam.com/
and someone mentioned that some of the tombstone MAME burners also offer on the side console roms...
do you need someone to come over and move the mouse and type on the keys for you in order to find what you need?
rampy