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| Patent Doc:
Games001 Not a problem...we all have had our share of misunderstandings. It could always be worse, you could have learned you were wrong by being sued by a copyright holder. FYI - and, not meant to rub salt on you, but these "recent" laws were in effect in at least 1976 so not exactly recent. |
| rlemmon:
My understanding was wrong to. I thought if you got them from a rom burner (0nly paying for materials) that it was ok. Not the first time iv'e been wrong......or the last 8) |
| Xiaou2:
Distributing ROMs, regardless of whether or not you make any money on it, is illegal How did everyone here get their roms? Someone had to distribute them. And more than likely, nobody has ONLY the roms they own. I dont see why people get their panties in a twist over this stuff. If you have Roms you are not supposed to have, then you are just as guilty as the people you point fingers at. So, is it that you are jealous cause the people make money off of selling it, and you are not? Id bet if your HD crashed the day before the show, you sure wouldnt mind picking up a fresh CD set from that guy... If you didnt realize, people actually making a big stinking thread about this stuff only makes more Negative attention to it, thus making things seem much worse than the real event itself. If the people who owned the copyrights were so infuriated.. then let them take care of the guy. As it stood before - nobody would have known, and all would be happy. Drawing attention to it only may cause companies to decide to do something drastic. Leaving it alone, they instead may just take down the occasional 'mass-seller'. Not to mention, you just manage to make a good day filled with a spot of negativity. Also, I gota say, this is nothing compared to people who pirate a new movie for example. Or even people who sell new movie bootlegs... Drop the 'Holier than Thou' crap, and get real people. Loosen up. Relax. Enjoy your pirated roms while you can. |
| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on March 10, 2008, 04:19:47 pm ---Loosen up. Relax. --- End quote --- I can't ... someone is watching me through my TV ... :-\ |
| shardian:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on March 10, 2008, 04:19:47 pm --- So, is it that you are jealous cause the people make money off of selling it, and you are not? ... Drop the 'Holier than Thou' crap, and get real people. Loosen up. Relax. Enjoy your pirated roms while you can. --- End quote --- It's not jealousy, it is annoyance. And in cases of blatant selling like this guy, it also has nothing to do with "holier than thou". He blows the moral gray area right out of the water with a frikkin nuke. You mentioned movie piracy. Once upon a time, that was just an annoyance to the MPAA. There was a street vendor here and there in large cities. When it first started in digital form, few people knew about it. Once it became "mainstream" though, all hell broke loose. You can find pirateers at every flea market in the country here in the states. It is 1 million times worse in the rest of the world. You get enough "vendors" of roms out there and it will start to get noticed. I don't think it is a bad thing to shut down "vendors" of roms. The more we keep it in the P2P domain, the less it gets noticed. |
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