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It is legal. I have every single NES cart I've ever owned sitting in storage. Format-shifting is perfectly legal.
by lightedman 10y ago
It is legal. I have every single NES cart I've ever owned sitting in storage. Format-shifting is perfectly legal.
- kod 10y agoDownloading roms from pirate bay is not legal, regardless of whether you have the NES cart sitting in storage.
- lightedman 10y agoThe EFF says otherwise. https://w2.eff.org/IP/eff_fair_use_faq.php https://w2.eff.org/IP/eff_fair_use_faq.php Also see the 1984 Betamax decision and the 1999 Rio MP3 player decision.
- joosters 10y agoDownloading a torrent has more complications that mere time-shifting. Users are also distributing copyrighted software to other torrent clients. (unless you've completely disabled uploads in your torrent app) Owning a cartridge may give you the ability to legally download the same software but it certainly doesn't give you permission to supply copyrighted works to other people.
- stale2002 10y agoThat's why you never seed/upload.
- Fej 10y ago(IANAL.) Downloading ROMs is almost certainly illegal. Dumping cartridges one owns is almost certainly legal. I'm not saying that you shouldn't download ROMs, just that it isn't legally justified. The EFF says nowhere at that page that downloading files is legal. It does say that backup copies are.
- placeybordeaux 10y agoTypically it's not the downloading that gets people in trouble, but the fact that if you are downloading a torrent with default settings you are also uploading said torrent.