Legality of roms by nintendo.

BuZz

@edmaul69 said in Legality of roms by nintendo.:

Please can you try and get your point across without the colourful language.

A Former User

@CodeDrawer said in Legality of roms by nintendo.:

Personal Websites and/or Internet Content Providers sites That link to Nintendo ROMs, Nintendo emulators and/or illegal copying devices can be held liable for copyright and trademark violations, regardless of whether the illegal software and/or devices are on their site or whether they are linking to the sites where the illegal items are found.

So now for me to talk in my own words like a big boy! The last one above is why the rPie forum doesn't want us to talk about where we get our roms. So not because they're mean, because they can get in HUGE trouble with this. Even emulators are illegal to a degree. Please keep rPie not in trouble.

I'm sure excessive linking to copyrighted content - never even mind hosting - can lead to legal trouble. However I do not believe there is anything wrong with just talking about these things - an activity that is forbidden on many retro sites on the pretext that just that can get them in hot water.

Personally, I am a pirate, always have been and while I'm not "proud" of it neither I am ashamed of this fact, not in a slightest. It's a complex issue and probably not worth discussing, similarly to religion/politics such conversations only lead to excessive flaming and neither side accepting other's arguments.

As for the Big N, Sony or whoever else, I understand why they go through these motions, obviously they cannot say it's okay and periodically go on a crusade. For example one of the biggest and oldest overground rom sites was just recently hit with a DMCA from Nintendo and withdrew their content. I'd rather if they didn't push people underground but, again, can understand why they do what they do. The unacceptable activities start when they start mass banning IPs or conduct lawyer-letter extortion campaigns - something that is unfortunately well known here in the UK.

BenMcLean

@mediamogul said in Legality of roms by nintendo.:

As for Nintendo's advice on emulation, that's like asking a cow about the ethics of eating a hamburger. Of course they're going to say that "it's wrong"... or "moo". Actually, "moo" is probably more likely, but I'm sure they wouldn't be keen on the idea.

No. That's like asking a cow who is also a major shareholder in the McDonalds corporation about the ethics of eating a hamburger.

edmaul69

@BuZz i apologize. Wont happen again.

CodeDrawer

@BenMcLean said in Legality of roms by nintendo.:

@mediamogul said in Legality of roms by nintendo.:

As for Nintendo's advice on emulation, that's like asking a cow about the ethics of eating a hamburger. Of course they're going to say that "it's wrong"... or "moo". Actually, "moo" is probably more likely, but I'm sure they wouldn't be keen on the idea.

No. That's like asking a cow who is also a major shareholder in the McDonalds corporation about the ethics of eating a hamburger.

I love that anaology!

PetroRie

@CodeDrawer said in Legality of roms by nintendo.:

Game copiers enable users to illegally copy video game software onto floppy disks

Wow, floppy disks, I haven't heard that word for many years... the good old 1.44mb :P

I do pirate everything I can simply because I don't have the money to own all those Retro games. some people pretend like it's a huge felony something comparable to a first degree murder, it's no biggie no reason to feel guilty it's not like you have killed someone lol. Most ISP's won't even care what you're downloading at all. I bet everyone here has watched a couple videos on his favorite music on YouTube, YouTube is full with videos containing copyrighted material.

Nintendo should focus more on creating good new games instead of focusing on something they cannot combat at all. I mean, if you go to Google and look for roms there are always a couple famous rom sites popping up at the first page. These sites are pretty old, they're still running. I was even surprised that they provide PSX ISO's.

Now reselling roms, thats an entire different story.

CodeDrawer

They even have wii ISO's!

CodeDrawer

Though it would be cool if they will have a starfox 2 rom we can get.

PetroRie

@CodeDrawer said in Legality of roms by nintendo.:

They even have wii ISO's!

Maybe they're running the server on some offshore server??

@CodeDrawer said in Legality of roms by nintendo.:

Though it would be cool if they will have a starfox 2 rom we can get.

Don't worry I'm sure they will hack the mini SNES within the first month, soon or late the game will be dumped for sure.

phulshof

Why wait that long? It's been in the MAME Software Lists for quite some time now...

CodeDrawer

Is mame the arcade emulator?

phulshof

@CodeDrawer said in Legality of roms by nintendo.:

Is mame the arcade emulator?

Yes, merged with MESS these days, which supports consoles.