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CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: Neverending Project on March 11, 2008, 04:29:26 pm ---Software still falls under the protection of the DCMA unless it is on a form of media that has become obsolete, or requires a dongle that has become obsolete. I think that making a copy of a copyright ROM is considered making a copy of a software program, and is hence illegal.

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Audio media also falls under the purview of the DCMA ... is there a special section for software that I am unaware of ?

Neverending Project:


--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on March 11, 2008, 04:37:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: Neverending Project on March 11, 2008, 04:29:26 pm ---Software still falls under the protection of the DCMA unless it is on a form of media that has become obsolete, or requires a dongle that has become obsolete. I think that making a copy of a copyright ROM is considered making a copy of a software program, and is hence illegal.

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Audio media also falls under the purview of the DCMA ... is there a special section for software that I am unaware of ?

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The current "Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works" (exemptions from Title 17, section 1201) were approved in November 2006 (and re-assessed every 3 years) and include software as stated above. (link here)

CheffoJeffo:

Right ....

BUT my understanding is that the section you refer to has to do with circumventing copy protection, not copying unprotected files.

The point I made about audio media being covered by the DCMA is that you are not allowed to copy a CD with copy-protection under the terms of the DCMA.

Perhaps I am confused, but to my mind, you are interchanging the terms "circumvention" and "copying". From my point of view, this is very important and is why I made the specific statements that I have about copying and circumvention.

I will absolutely agree that, under the DCMA, you aren't allowed to circumvent copy-protection on software in order to make copies (e.g. encrypted ROM sets). That, however, is very different from it being illegal to make copies of non-copy-protected software (non-encrypted ROM sets).

I'm not trying to be pedantic (like I have to try!) -- it's just that what you have been saying is very different from my understanding.

EDIT: For grammar and to acknowledge that there are circumstances where it is allowable to circumvent copy protection.

RayB:


--- 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.

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That's not a fair statement.


Neverending Project:

Hmm... I just went back and read through some of the DCMA text - it defines the subject matter of copyright material as,
--- Quote ---"Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device."
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Which I understood to include a software program as a work. But when it lists categories included:

--- Quote ---(1) literary works;
(2) musical works, including any accompanying words;
(3) dramatic works, including any accompanying music;
(4) pantomimes and choreographic works;
(5) pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works;
(6) motion pictures and other audiovisual works;
(7) sound recordings; and
(8) architectural works.
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It does not include a category describing software.

Although later, there is a section excluding certain software from copyright circumvention.

So maybe I'm I guess I'm confused.

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