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My first thought on this was, "Awesome!" And then my second thought was, "Could this guy go to jail for that?" It's so sad that a guy doing something as innoce
by sunnybunny 14y ago
My first thought on this was, "Awesome!" And then my second thought was, "Could this guy go to jail for that?"
It's so sad that a guy doing something as innocent as this could be faced with fines or prison because our legal system is so screwed up.
- enneff 14y agoHow could this be illegal? He's not redistributing the work.
- mich41 14y agoIf dumping the ROM required him to work around something considered "copy protection" by the manufacturer, he could go to jail for DMCA violation. In the land of the free, at least.
- rmc 14y agoThis is a ROM for an arcade game. It's highly unlikely to be much DRM. Additionally he might not be in the USA.
- DanBC 14y agoAnti-circumvention measures are baked into laws in may territories. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention) While the ROM might not have much DRM some cases suggest that tools for ripping ROMs, and tools that allow playing of modified ROMs on a console, are probably illegal. (See, for example, the MrModChips cases in the UK.)