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Posted By tacoX on 7/01/04 @ 4:10:10 PM
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"In response to a filing by Brewster Kahle of The Internet Archive, Lawrence Lessig of Creative Commons, and others, the Librarian of Congress granted exemptions from copyright protection measures in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to obsolete videogames. The exemption applies to games that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, and it determines a format obsolete “if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.”
According to the original filing, the exemption was proposed in order to migrate degraded and obsolete works to modern storage systems, and enable “archiving, future scholarship, and commentary.”
This would be AMAZING if roms were made legal (like SNES and back). We could set up a vintage rom downloading site  .
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Posted By lincolnluxor on 7/01/04 @ 4:29:38 PM
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OOOO MAN! that would be SOOOOO L337!!! omg... I would have so much more legal stuff on my PC!
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Posted By ZBomber on 7/01/04 @ 4:47:20 PM
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I doubt it.  Copyrights last like 75 years, so we'd be old when roms become legal 
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Posted By UwantSum on 7/01/04 @ 4:53:11 PM
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Damn... i have so many roms on this comp its unbeliveable... i use them all on my visual boy advance for my comp... I think there legal if you ask me... but copyright says its not our work... pfft i clicked 3 buttons to download it...
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Posted By aleoi7564 on 7/02/04 @ 8:39:16 PM
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rofl rom ARE legal as long as you dont keep then more then 24hours they were made because ppl need to try the game before buying it but i think there a part illegal somewhere nvm as long as we dont get in trouble with that
what l337 means?(i know its a noob question)
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Posted By rocket2234 on 7/08/04 @ 1:57:01 PM
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l337 means godly. I had asked Demo what it meant.
I never have downloaded any ROMS. I just don't know where to find them so I just haven't downloaded any.
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Posted By lincolnluxor on 7/08/04 @ 1:58:50 PM
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rocket... if you want some IM me when I get off work... I'll hook you up with a couple of my favs
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Posted By Morbid on 7/12/04 @ 3:40:41 PM
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ROMS arn't exactly legal, but they arn't exactly illegal if you know what I mean. There are alot of sites where you can download them but only if you own the true copy, yet how are they going to tell?
I havn't downloaded any, either because they fail, or require you to download mass amounts of porno. There was this one site where you could play games like Mario and stuff on the internet, I forget the site though, I'll find it out and post it back up.
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