So....how do you feel about ROMS and emulators?

[Ayen]

Wait, what about ROMulans?

Depends on the Romulan for me. Some of them can be outright pricks.

[Madame Adequate]

Romulans are a bunch of incompetent jackasses.

[Sephex]

Wait.

Nero was a ROMulan in Star Trek the Star Trek.

Nero is also a program people used to produce physical copies of pirated music.

ROMs can also be used to produce illegal copies of games.

I just blew this case wide open. Does Admiral Tomalak know about this? How deep does this go?

[krissy]

i am arresting all of you this is an internet citizens arrest

[NeoCracker]

I give no trouts about copyright law;

Our resident Lawyer everybody.

[Ayen]

When the copyright laws are so bad even lawyers don't give a trout.

[Slothy]

I won't claim to know copyright laws anywhere near as well as Raistlin, but from what little I do know, they really are a pile of trout.

[Mirage]

Maybe raistlin should explain to us how things should work instead.

[krissy]

when i was 12 or something equally young
and i had 56kb

the rom site i went to had a copy of ff6 (3 megabytes)

and it said specifically that if you do not own the game, you must delete this file within 24 hours or it is illegal

so every day i spent 2 hours downloading ff6 over and over again
and an hour playing it, if that

[Mirage]

you were a dumb kid

[Rin Heartilly]

when i was 12 or something equally young
and i had 56kb

the rom site i went to had a copy of ff6 (3 megabytes)

and it said specifically that if you do not own the game, you must delete this file within 24 hours or it is illegal

so every day i spent 2 hours downloading ff6 over and over again
and an hour playing it, if that

Does that mean you lost your save file each time too? D: You were a such a sweet summer child

[Mirage]

i just don't get why he didn't keep it for at least 20 hours. You could have finished the game in that time

[Ayen]

and it said specifically that if you do not own the game, you must delete this file within 24 hours or it is illegal

Wow. That site was full of crap. Even if you own the game it's still illegal (because the copyright owners don't give two trouts if you own the game already or not. I know Nintendo doesn't), and no limited amount of time you have it suddenly make having the ROM any less illegal.

[Mirage]

In some nations, it was in some way legal if it is for preview purposes or something. I think that's how allmp3.ru could stay in business for so long, because russia had laws like that.

[krissy]

1) no i obviously saved the save states i mean what would be the point otherwise lol

2) i couldn't because i had to go to sleep and school during the day, and i didn't play during the weekend cause that was my ps1 time
i only played games on the computer when my parents were at work, which was usually only 3 hours after school, so that left around 2 hours to download the game, and 1 to play. sometimes it was very slow and i didn't get it downloaded before they got home and didn't get to play

3) yes i think this was a long time ago when 'previewing' was legal, though im not sure if i was in a country where that kind of law mattered