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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:51:01 No.51081813 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51082321 >>51083379 >>51083435 >>51083514 >>51084036 >>51086320 >>51086361 >>51086382 >>51087249 >>51087325 >>51088172 >>51088729 >>51088746 >>51088785 >>51089066 >>51091194

When a product is no longer in print like a popular video game system(like psx, sega, SNES) and no games are made for it anymore, is it legal to download iso files of the old games and run them?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:52:54 No.51081838 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51081879

Very gray but usually you have to own the original.
Of course, this differs by country and/or company.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:53:09 No.51081847 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51081879 >>51087467

last I checked, it was OK if you owned the cartridge/disc already

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:54:27 No.51081879 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51081933

>>51081847
>>51081838
ok, but what happens if the game can't play anymore in any system because it's damaged?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:57:36 No.51081933 Report Delete

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>>51081879
You mean you have possession of the original and it doesn't work?

That would be fine in this case. You still own the cart. It doesn't have to work.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:16:17 No.51082321 Report Delete

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>>51081813
Who gives a crap?

Don't shit into your pants, girl.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:21:33 No.51083379 Report Delete

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>>51081813
No

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:26:10 No.51083435 Report Delete

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>>51081813
> /g/
> giving a shit about legality

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:31:52 No.51083514 Report Delete

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>>51081813
Technically, no.

But practically, don't worry about it. There are tons of Abandonware sites out there and most don't really give a shit, even the big companies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:09:21 No.51084036 Report Delete

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>>51081813
Not for 75 years thanks to Cuckyright. Who gives a fuck, though?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 01:00:09 No.51086320 Report Delete

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>>51081813
No, it is not legal, but nobody really gives a shit to sue you unless you distribute a fuckton of pirated software, and really only nintendo actually cares.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 01:03:47 No.51086361 Report Delete

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>>51081813
boards.4chan.org/vr

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 01:06:07 No.51086382 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51087493 >>51088811

>>51081813
it's illegal, but it's a good idea anyway.

Just get a PSP and play every game ever made on every platform ever made until 2000.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:30:33 No.51087249 Report Delete

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>>51081813
No company's going to sue you because you play games on consoles they don't sell anymore.

What is the alternative to emulation at this point ? Buy a copy from a reseller, not from Sega.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:38:32 No.51087325 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51087500

>>51081813
No.

When Disney puts certain features "back in the vault" does it mean it's ok to pirate those movies?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:54:15 No.51087467 Report Delete

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>>51081847
Technically, it's ok for you to make copies of what you own, from your own copies. Or to authorize the making of such, like sending your game cartridge to someone with a ROM dumper ... so *you* can have the ROM file, but not anyone else.

Even if you try to be ethical guy and only download ROMs of games you own, the sites you get them from most likely do not have permission to distribute them.

In the end though, you don't have much to worry about, since the copyright owners won't bother spending resources going after every person downloading ROMs. If anything, they might take action against sites distributing them, since it's the easiest way to cut off a supply.

How archive.org managed to set up their MAME archive and not get their ass fucked, I have no idea.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:57:24 No.51087493 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51087511 >>51088102

>>51086382
psp barely runs snes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:58:15 No.51087500 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51087544 >>51088105

>>51087325
Actually at some point it's public domain;

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:59:26 No.51087511 Report Delete

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>>51087493
That's a goddamn lie and you know it

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 03:02:45 No.51087544 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51088986

>>51087500
Not as long as they keep buying congressmen

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 03:03:39 No.51087557 Report Delete

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What you want to google is abandonware

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:05:48 No.51088092 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51088189 >>51088231

Would it be a greyareaish loophole to buy scratched up real copies and download "backups"

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:06:54 No.51088102 Report Delete

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>>51087493
I used my PSP for N64 and mode 7 SNES games more than I used it for PSP games

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:07:20 No.51088105 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51088161 >>51088986

>>51087500
>>51087500
Not Disney shit. They have a 70 license which they can renew at will.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:14:38 No.51088161 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51088197

>>51088105
Because they're bribing corrupt politicians to bend the law

Fuck Disney
Also, fuck their cheap ass computer generated shit. Bring back hand drawn cartoons

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:16:30 No.51088172 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51088232

>>51081813
It's a gray area, you don't have the right to do so, but no one's going to stop you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:18:23 No.51088189 Report Delete

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>>51088092
Yeah but don't bother man Nintendo don't give a fuck if youre downloading a copy of i-ninja from emuparadise they've and even if they did its not like they're gonna sue

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:18:40 No.51088197 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51088227

>>51088161
Criticize CGI animation all you want but it's certainly not cheap.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:21:44 No.51088227 Report Delete

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>>51088197
It's cheaper than quality hand drawn stuff anon

BTW i'm not talking about Pixar level cgi here, i'm talking about the crap they put in place of old school donald duck etc

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:22:11 No.51088231 Report Delete

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>>51088092
That'd be fine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:22:11 No.51088232 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51088269

>>51088172
Nintendo will try and stop you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:26:09 No.51088269 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51088494

>>51088232
Nintendo has never filed suit against a user for downloading a video game (as far as I know).
They may have filed against hosters of such content, but whether or not that constitutes stopping you, yourself, is debatable. Especially considering their lax stance on the issue, roms of popular Nintendo games are extremely easy to find.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:50:03 No.51088494 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51088640

>>51088269
Nintendo's stance on copyright isn't lax at all. That's why they have a shakedown scheme going on Youtube where you have to pay them a large percentage of the ad revenue from any video featuring one of their games. Meaning loyal fans who do LPs and such get fucked.

The only reason they haven't gone hard after other groups is because Nintendo literally only seem to have found out how the internet works in the past couple of years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:02:57 No.51088640 Report Delete

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>>51088494
>That's why they have a shakedown scheme going on Youtube where you have to pay them a large percentage of the ad revenue from any video featuring one of their games. Meaning loyal fans who do LPs and such get fucked.

Why have free publicity for your games when you can get your publicists to pay you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:12:28 No.51088729 Report Delete

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>>51081813
Download, yes. It's only copyright infringement when you upload. So someone else is violating copyright to enable you to download, but you're in the clear as long as you don't share anything (or any amount a jury decides is meaningful)

So you're not in the clear because it's abandonware (which is still under copyright), you're just in the clear because you're not the one in possession of it allowing copies to be made, you're just coming into possession of a copy.
(If my buddy photocopies a copyrighted book and gives it to me, I haven't violated copyright, he has. My copy is not an "illegal book" that it is a crime to possess, he has just broken the law with the act of creating it.)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:14:26 No.51088746 Report Delete

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>>51081813
Some older games are still sold digitally on their predecessors, play them like that if You care about legalities

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:18:26 No.51088785 Report Delete

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>>51081813
Only if you delete it after 24 hours.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:21:13 No.51088810 Report Delete

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The only funny business is for shit that you don't own a physical copy of, and that isn't being sold, on, say, the virtual console/pns. Unless the hardware they're selling it on's shit, like, say, the vita, then fuck them.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:21:21 No.51088811 Report Delete

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>>51086382
>>51087511
> 2011 + 4
> still shilling the PSP

shiggydiggydoo

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:38:51 No.51088986 Report Delete

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>>51087544
>>51088105
Yeah keep buying then, even though the people that made those movies are long dead.
Keep living in your corporate shit world.

Well i'm just saying internet is here now we don't need to bend over anymore. They're still believing in a blotted ancient world where pleb couldn't even possess a copy of a movie, they're destined to disapear anyway who cares ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:46:23 No.51089066 Report Delete

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>>51081813
>game/device nearly impossible to buy
>software can no longer be made, can no longer be sold for profit
>etc.etc.

>Giving a fuck about the legality when the copyright/trademark holders have nothing to lose because they can't produce the product

It really does not matter. It would be a laughable case in court.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 09:37:39 No.51091194 Report Delete

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>>51081813
Look up abandonware laws. I'm fairly sure the copyright runs out after 20 years or so.

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