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leapinlew:

--- Quote from: digitaldj on August 19, 2007, 02:14:26 pm ---Ok! Then where to find legal games for the emulators? You know as well as I do this enables illegal activity to have other copies then legal games.

It kills me that everybody acts so wholesome! People are trading games and you can't tell me anything diferent because people do it with music also!

How many people on here or mame world own a copy of something they don't own?
To have a forum that supports emulators and doesn't entertain questions as to where to get games especailly legal games is ludacris. Besides to get kicked off of a forum without first answering the question to legal games tells me you can do illegal activity but don't say so on their forum which supprts emlators and inturn will support illegal games.

Just my personal opinion!


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Saint is right. You need to do a little more research before you accuse a whole community of illegal activities.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: digitaldj on August 19, 2007, 02:14:26 pm ---How many people on here ... own a copy of something they don't own?

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I do !

Or, wait ...

do I ?

 :dizzy:

digitaldj:
Then forums admin's need to quit kicking someone one off because they asked where to get games. Though I know it wasn't on this forum but I know alot of people frequent both and it wasn't the admin here.

As to the pirate comment, don't tell me that anybody that has a cd or dvd burner hasn't used it to copy something illegal. To give, sell or borrow copyrighted material is illegal even to the extent of 2 little old ladies exchanginging copyrighted receipes.

I don't want to get anybody fired up here, just want to understand the emulator stuff and state the obvious of breaking the law on any platform, we have all done even speeding.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: digitaldj on August 19, 2007, 03:04:53 pm ---Then forums admin's need to quit kicking someone one off because they asked where to get games. Though I know it wasn't on this forum but I know alot of people frequent both and it wasn't the admin here.

As to the pirate comment, don't tell me that anybody that has a cd or dvd burner hasn't used it to copy something illegal. To give, sell or borrow copyrighted material is illegal even to the extent of 2 little old ladies exchanginging copyrighted receipes.

I don't want to get anybody fired up here, just want to understand the emulator stuff and state the obvious of breaking the law on any platform.

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If you don't want to get people fired up, then don't ... that is to say, we have all heard the eleventy brazilion arguments about copying CDs or DVDs (and, your little story about the little old ladies is NOT necessarily true AND depends on jurisdiction). None of them have any bearing on The Rules.

This is saint's site and those are his rules -- don't ask where to get copies of ROMs that you don't have the rights to. He told you where to get legal ROMs.

If you got kicked off a MAMEworld, then you probably didn't read the FAQ there either.

It is a great hobby, but please take a second to read a bit before you tick more people off with your "we all do it, so what is the big deal" nonsense.

 :cheers:

crashwg:
What people have or haven't done that may or may not be illegal is irrelevant.  If this website or any other allowed it's members to support the distribution of roms (which I don't think anyone will argue is usually illegal) then this and/or those other sites would be susceptible  to legal action from all sorts of people.

Yes, I'm sure what Saint touched on is true and there probably are some people who run their cabs completely legit (a small percentage IMHO) but for the rest of us, getting MAME and other emulators up and running isn't that hard to do with an internet connection and a search engine.  We are willing to go out of our way and look for answers elsewhere as to not jeopardize what we have here, a community of people dedicated to preserving/making arcade machines.

While I do appreciate when people try and stir up discussion like this occasionally, I believe you're starting to cross the line a little bit when it comes to pushing buttons (at least mine).

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