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MikeQ:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on January 18, 2006, 05:16:11 pm ---Rom begging goes against the board rules, as does generally making a public post about where to find them.  The legalities of ownership of them has been discussed on the board ad infinitum, you might do a search on "copyright", "legality", etc.

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Ya, did this.  You can read stuff on a forum all day and then find out it is all wrong.  I believed I had an understanding of the ROM issue but then you see a very high visibility website (and very professional) site providing ROMs and it makes you question what you think you know.

In general, I tend to disregard what I read on Forums because it usually is just information that is being repeated by people who have heard something and are repeating it with little knowledge of what they are talking about and when question for proof they usually can't produce it.  This forum doesn't quite fit that stereotype though.  People here seem a little better....and the Delorean forum is pretty good too.   Hmmm, ma bye I don't know what I'm talking about.



ahofle:

--- Quote from: MikeQ on January 18, 2006, 07:02:42 pm ---In general, I tend to disregard what I read on Forums because it usually is just information that is being repeated by people who have heard something and are repeating it with little knowledge of what they are talking about and when question for proof they usually can't produce it. 

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--- Quote ---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?

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I gotta wonder, why ask these questions on a forum if you tend to disregard what you read on Forums?   :P
MikeQ:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on January 18, 2006, 05:16:11 pm ---
--- Quote ---Why exactly is discussing a ROM site like this a bad thing.  It isn't like I'm soliciting for sites.  If anything, I'm trying to understand the legalities so I can try to adhere to them.

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Rom begging goes against the board rules, as does generally making a public post about where to find them.  The legalities of ownership of them has been discussed on the board ad infinitum, you might do a search on "copyright", "legality", etc.

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Well, I wasn't begging or saying where to find them.  I didn't say what search engine I used to find the site.  I went out of my way not to say where to find them.

The only reason I mentioned that they could be found with a search engine is to exhibit how high profile this site was.  It wasn't a site that I had to work very hard to find.  I would think if there were companies that were interested in stopping this, that this site woud be the first to go.
MikeQ:

--- Quote from: ahofle on January 18, 2006, 07:12:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: MikeQ on January 18, 2006, 07:02:42 pm ---In general, I tend to disregard what I read on Forums because it usually is just information that is being repeated by people who have heard something and are repeating it with little knowledge of what they are talking about and when question for proof they usually can't produce it. 

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--- Quote ---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?

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I gotta wonder, why ask these questions on a forum if you tend to disregard what you read on Forums?   :P

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Did you not read the part about thinking this forum wasn't the norm?

Also, when asking a legal type question like this, searching the forum will likely get you outdated information.  Especially if the general attitude  is "search for the information"  That guarantees the topic will only get discussed once and if the information is wrong, everyone will always be pointed to wrong information.

This just happened on another thread a couple days ago.  People were telling me not to use Microsoft compiler projects for my build of Mame because the compilers are horrifically expensive.  Guess what Starting with Visual Studio 2005......compilers are free.
markrvp:

--- Quote from: MikeQ on January 18, 2006, 07:16:38 pm ---The only reason I mentioned that they could be found with a search engine is to exhibit how high profile this site was.  It wasn't a site that I had to work very hard to find.  I would think if there were companies that were interested in stopping this, that this site woud be the first to go.

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That's why there is a rule here that you don't talk about where to get roms, to protect this site from prosecution.  It is absolutely 100% legal to talk about how to build arcade controls, though, so that's what we talk about.

Thanks for working on all the LED stuff.  That's going to be a valuable contribution.
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