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roms laws, what's LEGAL and what is ILLEGAL

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JuGz

JuGz

Heavy Metal Master
First of all i apologize for my sucky english.

Hi guys, i'm having a headache, because i'm trying to understand what roms are legal to put on a site and what aren't, there's who told me that snes roms are legal, there's who told me that those are legal just if u have the original cartridge (and then i can't put it on my site?), same for amiga adf and cps1 stuff. NOW is there anyone who can help me explaining or at least giving me some resources to search myself (i tried looking to many websites but i couln't find anything about roms laws)?
I wanna know what i risk if I put, for instance, a N64 rom on a website or a cps2 one...
please clear my mind :blush:
cheers

P.S. I hope I won't get banned, I don't think that this is an illegal thread..and I didn't know where to post it so I did it here.
 
Jaz

Jaz

Ex-Mod
The only ROMS that are legal are non-commercial ROMS (ie: demos created by peope of games that aren't ever going to be `officially` released.)

Every other commercial ROM you'll find for any system, is illegal.

There are loopholes that suggest that if you actually own the real game, it's OK to have the ROM. But here at Emutalk, any discussion or links to ROMS is forbidden. :)

I'll lock this thread now, to avoid a ROM discussion getting out of hand.

If anyone thinks they can explain this better than me (which they probably can), feel free to unlock this and post).
 
Eagle

Eagle

aka Alshain
Moderator
I believe the so called "loopholes" Jaz talked of are non-existant in legal terms. They are rumors to make it sound like its ok it copy the cartridge.
 
Gorxon

Gorxon

New member
Administrator
/me opens topic

I really don't think this topic should be closed, as it can be very interesting and informative.....and I think that a discussion about it would be good....

It should be closed, however, if it gets out of hand...;)
 
DuDe

DuDe

Emu64 Staff
The whole topic can easily be summarized, in an English that even a 5 year old can understand :
"R0Mzee womzee - NOT leagie weagie".
 
Tri-Force

Tri-Force

Philosopher Warrior
what about roms that were made to be sold but were never released (terranigma) are they legal? someone should figure out the whole legality and lay it down here in a sticky. loopholes and all. let there be nothing to be asked.
 
pj64er

pj64er

PJ64 Lubba
terranigma was out in japan. the only legal roms afaik are open domain ones. This includes demos, homebrew games, and games that were never released (StarFox 2 - SNES)
 
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JuGz

JuGz

Heavy Metal Master
Thank you guys, but what can you risk if u put illegal roms on a website?
 
Jaz

Jaz

Ex-Mod
Great Sig, DuDe_.. :happy:

Pulp Fiction is the best film in the world.. EVER.. :D

BTW, JuGz.. if you've got ROMS on that website of yours, kindly remove the link to it from your sig.
 
B

BFeely

New member
The Khan Artist said:
You can totally avoid lawsuits if you claim protection under the Internet Privacy Act. :p
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Not true. go to snopes.com and search for that and you will find that it is false.
 
The Khan Artist

The Khan Artist

Warrior for God
Geez... I posted that well over a year ago. Why bring this back up?

Anyway, yes, I did find out about that being a fraud... oh, a good six months ago.
 
sytaylor

sytaylor

Sy
I was told a while ago that extremley old games "don't bother" nintendo since they're not gaining active revenue from them anymore? Thus they become de-criminalised.. in that you're not supposed to have them but its still strictly speaking illegal???
 
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