The Iso Zone joins the list of romsites removing their warez downloads links

LuxerWap · Aug 18, 2018

MaverickWellington said:
This is an awful take. No one cares who you are, first and foremost. 95% of users here aren't people anyone thinks about outside of this site, and probably not even outside of this thread. Don't go thinking you're some special case. Secondly, is it right? Legally, only. Morally, fuck no. While TheIsoZone was not taken down by Nintendo, their host was intimidated by Nintendo's takedowns, and other DMCAs from numerous other companies at that, to the point that they're now moving the site somewhere else with new links, the point remains that Nintendo is going after sites that have more than just Nintendo games. There's shittons of alpha, beta, unreleased, and abandoned games on these sites, and for many, these are infinitely more interesting than any dumb Nintendo game you can usually buy on the e-shop.

Get off your high horse, acting like you're some saint in a sea of moral degeneracy. I can defend piracy, because the EU released a 300 page study that shows companies like Nintendo aren't affected by it in the slightest, and that it helps with preservation. If not for piracy, the west would likely not be exposed to characters and media like Nosferatu, and thus the Dracula mythos. This means we also wouldn't have game series like Castlevania, or vampires in popular roleplaying games such as D&D, The Elder Scrolls, and so on. Piracy can bring great things for performance in games, where the DRM is too intrusive, such as that one Ass Creed game, or it can allow you to *actually fucking install games* in the case of Civilization 3, which is next to impossible to install today, because the DRM will refuse to let the game load solely because it refuses to run on any systems with virtual disk software.

TL;DR There's great things to come with piracy, and the negatives are greatly overstated. Get off your high horse. You're not a saint, just pretentious.

How about no? Piracy is illegal. Point and simple. When action like this occurs, why they hell do I need to defend it? People should've known the consequences of messing with this stuff. It's nothing new. Don't really care how much you try to explain why it's right, cause it's not.

All I see here on the internet is people being whiny about those sites being down instead of just moving on to differents ones like some of us are.

MaverickWellington · Aug 18, 2018

LuxerWap said:
How about no? Piracy is illegal. Point and simple. When action like this occurs, why they hell do I need to defend it? People should've known the consequences of messing with this stuff. It's nothing new. Don't really care how much you try to explain why it's right, cause it's not.

All I see here on the internet is people being whiny about those sites being down instead of just moving on to differents ones like some of us are.

You mean, it's only wrong to you because the law, which is notoriously written by greedy companies with no concern for preservation what the fuck so ever, tells you it is. Try thinking for yourself for once.

LuxerWap · Aug 18, 2018

MaverickWellington said:
You mean, it's only wrong to you because the law, which is notoriously written by greedy companies with no concern for preservation what the fuck so ever, tells you it is. Try thinking for yourself for once.

Oh, I am. And I really don't care. It's the law. If I get caught for it, that is my responsibility.

MaverickWellington · Aug 18, 2018

LuxerWap said:
Oh, I am. And I really don't care. It's the law. If I get caught for it, that is my responsibility.

That's an extremely childish take, but you do you man. Preservation as a necessity trumps copyright law, especially in situations where there's no legal alternative, like gamecube games.

LuxerWap · Aug 18, 2018

MaverickWellington said:
That's an extremely childish take, but you do you man. Preservation as a necessity trumps copyright law, especially in situations where there's no legal alternative, like gamecube games.

Eh, maybe to you. I just shrug off and move on.

cvskid · Aug 18, 2018

modbrain said:
Don't worry my friends - the community will help each other out. I still know a good place for those old xbox ISO which really are becoming hard to find!

Yeah, i don't know why but out of every system it feels like it's near impossible to find original xbox games. It's like no one cares about the system. :cry:

AkitoUF · Aug 18, 2018

MaverickWellington said:
This is an awful take. No one cares who you are, first and foremost. 95% of users here aren't people anyone thinks about outside of this site, and probably not even outside of this thread. Don't go thinking you're some special case. Secondly, is it right? Legally, only. Morally, fuck no. While TheIsoZone was not taken down by Nintendo, their host was intimidated by Nintendo's takedowns, and other DMCAs from numerous other companies at that, to the point that they're now moving the site somewhere else with new links, the point remains that Nintendo is going after sites that have more than just Nintendo games. There's shittons of alpha, beta, unreleased, and abandoned games on these sites, and for many, these are infinitely more interesting than any dumb Nintendo game you can usually buy on the e-shop.

Get off your high horse, acting like you're some saint in a sea of moral degeneracy. I can defend piracy, because the EU released a 300 page study that shows companies like Nintendo aren't affected by it in the slightest, and that it helps with preservation. If not for piracy, the west would likely not be exposed to characters and media like Nosferatu, and thus the Dracula mythos. This means we also wouldn't have game series like Castlevania, or vampires in popular roleplaying games such as D&D, The Elder Scrolls, and so on. Piracy can bring great things for performance in games, where the DRM is too intrusive, such as that one Ass Creed game, or it can allow you to *actually fucking install games* in the case of Civilization 3, which is next to impossible to install today, because the DRM will refuse to let the game load solely because it refuses to run on any systems with virtual disk software.

TL;DR There's great things to come with piracy, and the negatives are greatly overstated. Get off your high horse. You're not a saint, just pretentious.

Man calm down a little, this doesn't have to turn into a war between people who wants free shit, people who actually want to preserve games and people who still like Nintendo despite everything.
We're adults here, we don't have to fall on personal attacks and calling each other names.

I don't know where I'm standing in this because while I've hacked every possible console I could've hacked (ps2, ps3, 3ds, you name it) I still buy legit games when I like them and I still like Nintendo and their games.
Sucks to get rom sites closed? Def.
Do we have the right to complain? Only at certain stuff.
Are we entitled to free shit? Hell no.

Let's be real here, sure, some of us are legit mad for preservation reasons but 99% of all of us just waned free shit myself included and I can admit it.
It's not going to be the end of it, there's still No-Intro, there's still lots of torrents out there.

What I'm trying to say with all this (because I suck at expressing myself) is: we're all in this together even if we have different opinions and takes around this subject.

duwen · Aug 18, 2018

cvskid said:
Yeah, i don't know why but out of every system it feels like it's near impossible to find original xbox games. It's like no one cares about the system.

It's probably because the existing emulators for it have such low compatibility (like, close to zero) that the only people after og xbox isos are those with the original hardware... which I know is a decent amount of people, but compared to the user base for an equivalent emulated system it's tiny.

Uiaad · Aug 18, 2018

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duwen said:
It's probably because the existing emulators for it have such low compatibility (like, close to zero) that the only people after og xbox isos are those with the original hardware... which I know is a decent amount of people, but compared to the user base for an equivalent emulated system it's tiny.

There has been a fantastic leap when it comes to Xbox emulation. Can't remember the name of it off the top of my head but it looks like xbox emulation is getting the love it deserves.

duwen · Aug 18, 2018

uiaad said:
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There has been a fantastic leap when it comes to Xbox emulation. Can't remember the name of it off the top of my head but it looks like xbox emulation is getting the love it deserves.

CXBX? It's showing promise, but it's still a long way from even something like Saturn emu standards, let alone something like Dolphin.

Uiaad · Aug 18, 2018

Possibly I remember there was two of them now showing real promise. Will check when I'm not on mobile. But what you have to remember about Xbox emulation is that its a pain in the arse due the architecture of the machine. I have no doubt it will get there eventually.

MaverickWellington · Aug 18, 2018

AkitoUF said:
Man calm down a little, this doesn't have to turn into a war between people who wants free shit, people who actually want to preserve games and people who still like Nintendo despite everything.
We're adults here, we don't have to fall on personal attacks and calling each other names.

I don't know where I'm standing in this because while I've hacked every possible console I could've hacked (ps2, ps3, 3ds, you name it) I still buy legit games when I like them and I still like Nintendo and their games.
Sucks to get rom sites closed? Def.
Do we have the right to complain? Only at certain stuff.
Are we entitled to free shit? Hell no.

Let's be real here, sure, some of us are legit mad for preservation reasons but 99% of all of us just waned free shit myself included and I can admit it.
It's not going to be the end of it, there's still No-Intro, there's still lots of torrents out there.

What I'm trying to say with all this (because I suck at expressing myself) is: we're all in this together even if we have different opinions and takes around this subject.

My problem isn't with his stance. There's multiple people in the thread with similar stances, and it isn't a problem to have it. No, the problem is just his smug attitude and how he's trying to act like the standard for how people should be in this.

garyopa · Aug 18, 2018

SomeKindOfUsername said:
LoveROMs was taken down because they thought operating in the US was a good idea.

Its not about operating in the USA, it does not matter where your servers are located, its the 'money trail' that big 'N' follows.

The owners were located in the USA, the ones 'collecting the money', so they were easy targets to make an example of, and hopefully doing so would scare others off the web (and that trick worked).

3 things you need to do to stay under the radar.

#1 - Don't live in the USA or an EU country
#2 - Don't charge VIP (monthly or yearly) members
#3 - Don't use commercial ad networks like 'adsense'

If you follow those simple 3 rules, the only trouble you will get is a bunch of takedown emails, and the odd threatening letter mailed to your address listed in your 'whois' registery.

FateForWindows · Aug 23, 2018

The Iso Zone is down for good now, and that retro site is down. Iso Zone now redirects to reprimed.com (if the website ends up having warez I will gladly remove the link). Before that the website had been replaced with this message:
"Due to the actions of certain members of the community; coupled with the recent decision to remove all download links, I have decided to end support for this website.

Sorry a group of bad apples had to spoil it for the rest of you. Hopefully a new community will emerge soon.

-JaMbo87"

deSSy2724 · Aug 24, 2018

Files are not deleted, only links..... same goes for the ison zone and emuparadise

Captain_N · Aug 24, 2018

Another one gone. Nintendo must be planning some large retro digitial distribution with switch payed online.
Im gonna call that edge rom site to be next. They have alot of stuff. good mame chds

FateForWindows · Aug 24, 2018

Captain_N said:
Another one gone. Nintendo must be planning some large retro digitial distribution with switch payed online.
Im gonna call that edge rom site to be next. They have alot of stuff. good mame chds

Emuparadise only did it out of caution and The Iso Zone had it planned for months, so eh

Captain_N · Aug 24, 2018

FateForWindows said:
Emuparadise only did it out of caution and The Iso Zone had it planned for months, so eh

True. The best way to get roms is the complete sets from torrents. nintendo cant stop that

deSSy2724 · Aug 24, 2018

You can still d ow n loa d from e mu par adi se, just look for that "script"......

2h0f9c5h3f4 · Aug 26, 2018

Just sign up to say few words, because I found some of you are quite "interesting".

Some of you think piracy is illegal, while it is in most countries, but still download piracy roms or some other things that is piracy, and refuse to do anything to reform the copyright law like Pirate Party or something similar. To those say law is law, and keep breaking the sacred law "secretly", So you are saying you enjoy acting illegal/being a criminal? Or Is that your country are like NAZI Germany, you have no say to such thing? NAZI seems legally persecute Jews , that's their law.

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