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Hope this isn't a taboo topic
Farmboy90:
--- Quote from: MikeQ on January 18, 2006, 04:26:18 pm ---Well, I'm not giving out the sites name or anything. A simple search of mame roms will find this site withing the first two hits. I'm curious how something this easy to find and high profile can do this?
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I am not sure what the point is, but you can google for any other number of "questionable" things and get hits as easily too (satellite test cards, escorts in your area, etc). This rom site isn't selling them. I don't see anything wrong with what they are doing. It is borderline, I know, but I wouldn't call it illegal. And maybe in the country where these sites are located it isn't an issue.
Either way, everyone knows about them, so I don't think there is much to discuss about it.
Tiger-Heli:
Not sure if we are allowed to discuss this, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if most ROM sites disappeared as much b/c they require a tremendous amount of bandwidth, rather than b/c of external pressure/legal issues.
MikeQ:
Something interesting on their site, they state that the "Protected" roms are protected by the IDSA and that they will never post these roms.
Why exactly is discussing a ROM site like this a bad thing. It isn't like I'm soliciting for sites. If anything, I'm trying to understand the legalities so I can try to adhere to them.
They are located in Marietta Georgia.
The hosting company is in Washington State
saint:
Discussing the existance, legality, and morality of ROM sites is not a violation of the rules of this board - no links or hints to the ROMs though please.
Oh - and they are illegal flat out, period and end of report. There are legal ROM sources out there, however limited they are in scope.
--- saint
MikeQ:
Will do, no links/hints.
So does this mean that the arcade companies just don't enforce the copyrights. Are copyrights like trademarks where if you don't enforce violations, then you will lose them?
Thanks Saint.
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