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I don't get how ROMs for the old systems continue to be so easily available. I'm really glad they are, but how have all of the ROM hosting sites note been DMCA

• davorb 11y ago
  There's no money in it.
  • haberman 11y ago
    Virtual Console? Also wouldn't publishers be worried about retro classics competing with their new AAA offerings?
    • 5ilv3r 11y ago
      If they are worried about that, they have bigger problems.
• ryanlol 11y ago
  Because not everyone is in the US.
• jMyles 11y ago
  Some of them have (although I'm not aware of any that only host older games that have). In any case: this is the internet. You get whatever you want, and the effect of DMCA on that is indistinguishable from zero.
• IMTDb 11y ago
  Some game have "lost" ownership. Say that old game studio that developed GameBoy game has gone bankrupt, no one is going to enforce the copyright Most game or not reedited so there is no money to gain fom preventing them from being online. It may even help to keep the brand alive in case a reboot in programmed (Eg: tomb raider) Often it's a simple calculation of how much revenue could be won if you factor in the fact that you need to pay the team to find the ROM's, send the letters and enforce them once in a while. Basically it's nearly never worth it.
  • umanwizard 11y ago
    Are you French? "reedited" should be "republished", I think :)