Main > Main Forum
wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!rom sets for sale?
<< < (7/17) > >>
mrserv0n:
Not a question of legal or illegal, its illegal. period, copyrighted material. done.

Question is does a development team want to sue you for a game they made in 1994 and havent made money on since 1995. Answer No. So your not going to get in trouble for it.

If you sell things people DO make money on, movies, or xbox 360 games, you will get busted. Lets use morbid.net , was caught selling xbox games 1:1 backups. Shutdown, received 2-3 years supervised release , and a fine. finished it, started up AGAIN selling 1:1 wii, 360, ps2 backups, BUSTED AGAIN, got 2 years in prison and a $2500 fine.

On the flip side, there are mame burners out there who have been selling mame, daphne etc for over 8 years and are still up and kicking. Because noone is going to sue you for an atari or arcade set.

I see nothing wrong with selling roms, that are out of development and no longer making money in the open market,  its convenient and quick for people to get games, For those who downloaded there mame set vs buying it from a burner and thinks there method of obtaining the games is OK needs there head checked. theres no difference there.

rrcade:
Everyone here has full sets of Roms...........Don't tell me you are Legally entitled to own and play every game.......Get off your high horse.
Thy:

--- Quote from: rrcade on March 11, 2008, 12:54:27 am ---Everyone here has full sets of Roms...........Don't tell me you are Legally entitled to own and play every game.......Get off your high horse.

--- End quote ---

Whilst everyone may have full sets, they don't sell them to make a profit. Next time have a full read of the post. As saint said, we all use the roms but that's a moral issue, the selling of them is a legal issue more to the point, and the original post was about selling them, not possessing them.
havic626:

--- Quote from: rrcade on March 11, 2008, 12:54:27 am ---Everyone here has full sets of Roms...........Don't tell me you are Legally entitled to own and play every game.......Get off your high horse.

--- End quote ---
im legally entitled cause i own every arcade machine mame emulate!  :angel:
you belive me right?? right?? >:D
Bluedeath:
While detaining ROMs whithout having the physical counterpart IS illegal in almost all the world period.
While Is even morally (not only legally) questionable to sell copirighted material without having rights. The behaviour of trying to earn cash  from works that has been done 30 years ago is questionable also, with this I'm not saying that perople shouldn't earn money from their work (even if we know that the money is noy going to programmers and artists pockets), i'm, just saying that rom should be sold by the detainers at a symbolical price (1 dollar each for example)to own the original thing legally (not e repogrammed version like the collections that can be foud for pc and consoles).

I can understand (the one around here that say that never downloaded a ROM image that he/she  doesn't own is a liar) morally peolple who buy collections of rom because they don't have broadband connection what i cannot accept is that someone harvest money from these people , I can allow that someone can ask let me say twice the price of the blank support ,l ert me say to compensate the cd/dvd burned wear (and twice price of the blank is alreadyt an inflated compensation).

One question if someone has a conversioe (i.e. strider for c64) can we say that the right to play other verssions of it are included also?
Navigation
Message Index
Next page
Previous page

Go to full version