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Kyoufu Kawa I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. Level: 70  Posts: 1936/2481 EXP: 3008456 For next: 7355 Since: 03-19-04 From: Catgirl Central Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 13 hours |
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| Honestly, the whole "huge IPS" thing reeks. Also, I just punched a Nintendo of America representative in the face. |
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Jaguarstrike Level: 8 Posts: 21/32 EXP: 1469 For next: 718 Since: 08-28-05 From: Brooklyn, NYC Since last post: 24 days Last activity: 24 days |
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| well, in theory, no computer files can be copyrighted, because all it is is ones and zeros and a rom is differently interpreted depending on the software you run it on. | |||
Spel werdz rite Koopa Level: 14  Posts: 81/108 EXP: 11151 For next: 1920 Since: 07-26-05 From: Murrieta CA Since last post: 8 hours Last activity: 8 hours |
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Nice bump... 31 days 5 hours and 53 minutes. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 6929/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| In theory, yes. I mentioned that before, about how you could take a piece of copyrighted data and produce a new and unique output from it. I wonder just how the laws do work regarding that... | |||
ShadowSonic Paragoomba Level: 13 Posts: 68/69 EXP: 8585 For next: 1682 Since: 03-23-05 From: Minnesota Since last post: 54 days Last activity: 7 days |
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| Can't you bypass that rule about distributing Roms if you make a site and plainly say: "These roms are for personal use only and are not meant to be downloaded by anyone else. These are meant for backups only incase my harddrive (or whatever) wipes out...etc..."? Then you don't say anything to anyone about that site and if people find it on there, they can downloaded it or something? Anyone get what I'm saying? | |||
Apophis Red Super Koopa Level: 45 Posts: 796/882 EXP: 640255 For next: 19909 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 15 hours Last activity: 15 hours |
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Originally posted by ShadowSonic Nope. Wouldn't work. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 6947/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| No, because why would that be online? You might get away with not having an index page and 'forgetting' to not make the directory readable, to make it look like a backup page (maybe throw a misspelled rule in .htaccess) but I doubt it would work. Plus without any links, no search engines would pick it up, unless you manually added it in which case they'd have evidence that you intended for people to know about it. And I think they'd get you for just having the ROMs, which is technically only legal if you own the original cart/disc and backed them up yourself (distribution is illegal, so downloading them from someone who's distributing illegally is illegal). Though that does make me wonder a bit about distribution laws. Distributing ROMs probably is legal in some countries, so if the hoster is legal, would downloading them be legal too? Or at least would going to a country where it's legal and downloading them be, even if you brought them back home? |
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LocalH Red Goomba Level: 12  Posts: 35/46 EXP: 7612 For next: 309 Since: 03-17-04 Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 4 days |
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| Nowadays, the big trend is to prosecute citizens of your country for doing things that are illegal in your country, that they may have done entirely in other countries. So, for example, if one were a US citizen, and went to a place where copyright is not legally honored, and sold boatloads of pirated games in a place where it's entirely legal, then if you were to come back into the US you could potentially be prosecuted, even if you did not have any illegal product on you when you exited or entered the US (which would be considered smuggling). |
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