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RayB:
--- Quote from: MikeQ on January 18, 2006, 04:26:18 pm ---Well, I'm not giving out the sites name or anything.
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Uh, yes you did. Read your first post. Then I suggest you Edit it.
Regarding why, my guess is this: They received Cease & Desist orders for a bunch of specific games. So they removed them. Everything else is still up because no lawyers have come a'knockin.
Anyways, don't ruin it for us. Remove their name from your post!
:D
RayB:
--- Quote from: MikeQ on January 18, 2006, 07:16:38 pm ---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.
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... in fact you included their name TWICE.
danny_galaga:
yeah, it isnt hard to see the sites name in the quote you gave! edit! edit!
Lilwolf:
Basically if nobody complains their ok. Heck some of the major sites (daves classics and retrogames) used to host almost all the roms available.
But once retrogaming became popular, and those retro cd's started coming out.... the companies started complaining, as they should.
Why they haven't decided to start selling the original roms themselfs for home use (and for business use for more) is really a good question though. Many here do as much as they can to be legal.
Of course, I believe I have supported multiple employees of Capcom's children through college with all my SF2 and beyond money.
Tiger-Heli:
Another thing to keep in mind is that - even legally - this is all opinion and conjecture.
Modern software comes with a license agreement and is generally (but not universally) accepted that you can make a single copy of the software for archival purposes.
Arcade games were originally sold as a complete item, and you owned the cabinet, the electronics, and the manual, if it included one. There was no mention of licensing, you owned the game. There was also no mention of whether you could or could not dump the ROMS and then whether you could or could not distribute them after you dumped them. (Primarily because, at the time, the machines to dump them cost many times more than the games themselves, so nobody would seriously consider this).
Basically - ownership and distribution of any roms except the three that are released as public domain on MAME.net (Robby-Roto and a couple of others), is a legal gray area (including IMHO StarRoms and the Capcom Roms that ship with the HotRod) and will remain so until the issue is challenged in court and decided by a judge (and even then there is a possibility of the decision being overturned on appeal).
However, everyone (well, most everyone) here, would prefer for it to remain a gray issue so we can deny that we are knowingly breaking any laws, so there is a general policy of "Don't ask, Don't tell", NTTIAWWT. 8)
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