Should downloading video game ROMs be illegal?
Posted by: tachi
Date: 2009-06-18 10:17:30
What's your opinion?
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I totally agree there. Pokemon games, such as Red/Blue/Yellow, Gold/Silver/Crystal, are like old. Dead old. There's a game shop I know and they sell games way old! Even games of when I was a kid, and they don't cost all that much, but still. Old games, like I just said, are a pain in the ass to get since, either the cartridge is damaged on the inside or the battery is dying, either way people turn to Pokemon ROMs, but some sites, are greedy. They want you to pay for like a pro account just to download more than one file, and I'm like what the fuck? Seriously, ROMs, should stay legal.
At first, when you think about it, it seems completely alright for the companies to make getting ROMs from older games legal (since they aren't making any more money off of them), but when you think about it, people would hesitate to buy a game, if in a few years it's going to be free.
Why must we have to buy it from them TWICE?
?I am so sensible, Sir, of the kindness with which the House has listened to me, that I will not detain you longer. I will only say this, that if the measure before us should pass, and should produce one‐tenth part of the evil which it is calculated to produce, and which I fully expect it to produce, there will soon be a remedy, though of a very objectionable kind. Just as the absurd acts which prohibited the sale of game were virtually repealed by the poacher, just as many absurd revenue acts have been virtually repealed by the smuggler, so will this law be virtually repealed by piratical booksellers. At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. Everybody is well pleased to see them restrained by the law, and compelled to refund their ill‐gotten gains. No tradesman of good repute will have anything to do with such disgraceful transactions. Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot. On which side indeed should the public sympathy be when the question is whether some book as popular as Robinson Crusoe, or the Pilgrim?s Progress, shall be in every cottage, or whether it shall be confined to the libraries of the rich for the advantage of the great‐grandson of a bookseller who, a hundred years before, drove a hard bargain for the copyright with the author when in great distress? ??
Should GBA roms be illegal to download? Heck, I think Nintendo doesn't even care anymore, what with the GBA slot deleted from the DSi.
The existence of Virtual Console makes it obvious that Nintendo does care about the copyright for their older games.
Should GBA roms be illegal to download? Heck, I think Nintendo doesn't even care anymore, what with the GBA slot deleted from the DSi.