Hacking Legality of ROMs

[cracker]

Yes, I understand since the wages over there are not enough to be able to afford 'luxuries' such as buying a legitimate game/movie/etc. I wouldn't worry about it much over there since the main focus is on the underground sellers and not the buyers. But once again, they know the sales go into the economy so the crackdown on them is enforced by a Western influence usually.

 

[bason230]

I see. Thank you very much, cracker, it was nice of you to explain all that. I feel better right now too xP

 

[windwakr]

The only time the downloader gets in trouble is when the government wants to scare the public into not downloading stuff anymore.

Well if any of this passes, you'd get in trouble just for searching in Google without even downloading anything:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=18815


QUOTEThe White House's vision is perhaps a prelude to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which will go before Congress later this year. The bill would make P2P or BitTorrent client development a criminal offense if the distributed software was used for infringement. It also implements an interesting provision called "imminent infringement", which allows the government to charge people who they think might be about to infringe with a civil offense (for example if you searched "torrent daft punk"). This is among the first official "thought crime" provisions to be proposed by the U.S. government. The bill also makes it a criminal offense to bypass DRM.

Obama needs to GTFO.

 

[Sicklyboy]

The only time the downloader gets in trouble is when the government wants to scare the public into not downloading stuff anymore.

Well if any of this passes, you'd get in trouble just for searching in Google without even downloading anything:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=18815


QUOTEThe White House's vision is perhaps a prelude to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which will go before Congress later this year. The bill would make P2P or BitTorrent client development a criminal offense if the distributed software was used for infringement. It also implements an interesting provision called "imminent infringement", which allows the government to charge people who they think might be about to infringe with a civil offense (for example if you searched "torrent daft punk"). This is among the first official "thought crime" provisions to be proposed by the U.S. government. The bill also makes it a criminal offense to bypass DRM.

Obama needs to GTFO.

"I want to download some new ds games!"

Pass GO, do not collect $200, and go straight to JAIL. FML.

 

[Ritsuki]

Hope those ideas won't come to Switzerland :/ For now, download and distribution is tolerated in the private sphere (yourself, family, friends, colleagues). It's illegal only if you sell it or give it to an unknown person.

 

[CrimzonEyed]

nothing happends if you kill everyone that stands in your way and you can't be killed yourself.
TRUE STORY

 

[riverchen]

We need something like that in the US. Heh. Also, does having multiple copies of a rom make it "Worth more" like in the 1000$ quota? If so, DELETE ALL MAH ROMS! And do save files count???