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MikeQ:

How is it that certain websites are able to post 30,000 mame roms and other emulator roms for public download without fear of being shutdown.   They don't even require an account or anything?

Is it simply because these particular roms aren't owned by companies who care to enforce their copyright?


One of the sites also has this statement:  What are protected roms?


In an effort to help support the gaming industry, including all the hard working individuals who slave day and night to provide you with some decent entertainment, will never make protected games available for download. We feel that by doing this, the quality of games will be improved because more money will be put into the creation of new games. While other rom sites may not do the same, we suggest you stay away from them to help keep the gaming industry prosperous. If you enjoy a game, buy it, we do! Below is the list of roms protected xxxxx
Aliens vs. Predator
Barbarian
Chessmaster
Dance Dance Revolution
Dig Dug
Donkey Kong
Doom
Frogger
Grand Theft Auto
Kirby
Lego Island
Lego Racers
Mario
Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX
Metal Gear Solid
Monsters, Inc. (Game)
NASCAR
Pac Man
Pokemon (game)
Rayman
Spider-Man (Game)
Top Gun (Game)
Wolfenstein
Yu-Gi-Oh
Zelda

I hope this also clears up a few things for those who were wondering why we have 30,000 ROMs and Mario rom downloads are no where to be found.



mccoy178:

knock, knock, knockin' on posthell's door. ;D

MikeQ:

Well, I'm not giving out the sites name or anything.  A simple search of mame roms will find this site withing the first two hits.  I'm curious how something this easy to find and high profile can do this?

ahofle:

Undoubtedly an offshore site.  It's not as easy to initiate legal action on people there or make them shut down their site.

Tiger-Heli:

Yes - this will probably go to post hell very soon.

Stuff I can suppose - if the site is hosted in angola, or taiwan, or malaysia - or something, there is not much the IDSA can do about copyright infringement.  If it is not - they can send a C&D letter to the hosting provider, and then the content just gets posted to another site on another domain a few days later (possibly with the same base site re-directing to it).

Just like all the other warez, crackz, serialz on the WWW.

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