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Legality of Roms


Postby damian » Mar 5, 2003 @ 4:52am

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Postby golan_trevize_x » Mar 5, 2003 @ 5:25am

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Postby Bradskey » Mar 5, 2003 @ 5:48am

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Postby damian » Mar 5, 2003 @ 5:53am

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Postby James S » Mar 5, 2003 @ 6:35am

I never said laws are automatically ethical, but that they come into play when your ethics fall short. You're trying to twist around my words in order to make me frustrated because your argument that ROMs should be legal... no, your argument that you can ethically justify downloading ROMs has failed.

Bradskey, there in lies you're problem. You're mad at others because they're trying to stop your immoral behavior, behavior that you know is immoral but refuse to admit because your parents or society forcibly instilled them in you. Your battle is far from the legality of ROMs, it deals with the power struggle you are having with the moral code of conduct that was taught to you but that which you cannot uphold because it's just so easy and so fulfilling to break them. You satisfy yourself by saying that others do it, and that it's so easy that it can't be wrong because you were always taught that stealing never pays, but you're finding out that some kinds of stealing are too easy to ignore. It's not about the prices of CD albums or anything like that, quit kidding yourself. Your actions are far from some romanticized concept of nobility that you try to use as a guise to the true immorality of the action in which you think is not only justified but required of you as a citizen that has been 'cheated.' And then when someone comes along that can uphold the same morals you fight with internally and shows you that it can be done you're frustrated and angry at that person for doing what their supposed to do, what you're morals tell you that you should do but can't.

[Replace "ROM" with "MP3," "Warez," "Gamez," or any other of the similar whereas may apply]
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Postby golan_trevize_x » Mar 5, 2003 @ 7:13am

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Postby damian » Mar 5, 2003 @ 1:54pm

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Postby Mechcommander » Mar 5, 2003 @ 5:55pm

You jinx'd it Damian. :P

What I don't get is that ROMS are illegal even if we own the game, system, cartridge, and all the hardware associated with the game, it's still illegal to get.
Now, I normally try to obey the rules, but that seems a little ludicrous. The only reason I want an emulator is to play the games on my computer, not needing to run all over my house just to have a little fun (Yes, I'm lazy, but who in the American populace isn't?) or buy expensive equipment to hook up the hardware to my computer. And what about all the games the companies have stopped producing? You can't hardly find the physical cartrdges, but the ROMs abound. So, what will the average person do? Download the ROM instead of spending a fortune on the actual cartridge. Not to mention the scouring of the internet to find someone willing to sell it. Personnally, I would love to support the company and buy the game if they still produced it. And about owning the game, I see no moral question about that. The law, however, forbids me to get it anyway. I just don't get it.
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Postby Dihnekis » Mar 5, 2003 @ 9:48pm

Careful, don't get crushed under the weight of my stupidity... the think hurts
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Postby James S » Mar 5, 2003 @ 11:01pm

I wouldn't use those words, precisely... more like ignorant cowboy... but it has the same effect.
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Postby Mechcommander » Mar 6, 2003 @ 12:30am

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Postby Dihnekis » Mar 6, 2003 @ 2:01am

I honestly can't imagine how Gore would have handled 9 11, but i know he would have handled this Iraq thing better. Namely, by not pissing the world off.
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Postby com » Mar 6, 2003 @ 3:50am

If there are no laws regarding something then it is legal, if i say peeing in the toilet is illegal and there are no laws regarding that, it is legal.
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Postby sponge » Mar 6, 2003 @ 3:57am

Doing it once is funny, twice is stupid. I'm sure you can figure out who I'm referring to.

I agree, if the developers won't bother in the least of making any sort of protection, well then it gets what it deserves. It's like keeping your door unlocked in a crime-filled city.
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