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MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: rlemmon on March 10, 2008, 04:08:49 pm ---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)

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It is okay...with most of the community anyway. Copyright law is something entirely different than the "honor among thieves" that goes on in the emulation community.

BTW, I'm not calling anyone a "thief". It is just a well-known phrase so I used it to illustrate a concept. Plus, it sounds better than "honor among copyright violators".
Turnarcades:
It's not worth getting into the old MAME/rom legality issue; we all know where it stands, or should anyway.

It's not uncommon; and not just with emulators. At computer fairs in the UK the organisers supposedly actively regulate the content of the markets, but every time I go, it's chipped cable boxes, pirated software (rows and rows of stalls), blatantly stolen goods and the one at Dunstall race course in Wolverhampton usually has a dude there who chips consoles way before anyone thinks they can be cracked. He was doing 360's with the anti-online-detection chips before the console was even available in the UK, let alone the chips available globally.

It was here I first played the PS3 and several had been obtained by admittedly dodgy means for resale.
TelcoLou:
Actually .. now that I think about it, did you get any permission from the people in the attached pic to reprint them here?

If not, that's illegal you know ... they could sue you.

FrizzleFried:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on March 10, 2008, 04:32:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on March 10, 2008, 04:19:47 pm ---Loosen up. Relax.
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I can't ... someone is watching me through my TV ...  :-\

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Yah?  I was just sent a free ticket to something called a "Death Train"?!?

 :dizzy:
FrizzleFried:

--- Quote from: TelcoLou on March 10, 2008, 06:02:02 pm ---Actually .. now that I think about it, did you get any permission from the people in the attached pic to reprint them here?

If not, that's illegal you know ... they could sue you.



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Not true...a photo taken in public is public domain.  At worst the venue organizers may hold a claim since the venue isn't technically "public" but rather "private".

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