Firstly, this is not a rom request.
I'd like to point out an important factor in copyright law.
When you purchase something copyable, there's always some kind of warning, and also (depending on the medium), a document you must sign (electronically, of course) that essentially makes YOU responsible for anything that you do with that program that is against the law. Meaning, if YOU purchased the program, and YOU put it up on some file-sharing program, then YOU are responsible for the hoardes of people who download it. Not them.
Such is the case with movies on TV. The movie companies know that people have VCRs and can record movies. They know that by showing the movie on TV they are losing money. But they show it anyway. By showing that movie, they are making it available to you for copying. Because someone has made it available for copying, you are not held responsible for the copy.
In the same way, because someone has made their ROMs available to you to download, DOWNLOADING them cannot be illegal, because COPYRIGHT LAW STATES that the person who COPIES it is held responsible.
When they catch a drug dealer, they don't proceed to hunt down every single person who bought drugs from him... so why do they hunt down every single poor shmuck who downloaded a song from a song dealer? Hmm...
I'd like to point out an important factor in copyright law.
When you purchase something copyable, there's always some kind of warning, and also (depending on the medium), a document you must sign (electronically, of course) that essentially makes YOU responsible for anything that you do with that program that is against the law. Meaning, if YOU purchased the program, and YOU put it up on some file-sharing program, then YOU are responsible for the hoardes of people who download it. Not them.
Such is the case with movies on TV. The movie companies know that people have VCRs and can record movies. They know that by showing the movie on TV they are losing money. But they show it anyway. By showing that movie, they are making it available to you for copying. Because someone has made it available for copying, you are not held responsible for the copy.
In the same way, because someone has made their ROMs available to you to download, DOWNLOADING them cannot be illegal, because COPYRIGHT LAW STATES that the person who COPIES it is held responsible.
When they catch a drug dealer, they don't proceed to hunt down every single person who bought drugs from him... so why do they hunt down every single poor shmuck who downloaded a song from a song dealer? Hmm...
It's just something that has been decided upon by this site as something that is not to be discussed etc.