Taken from your link (certainly not "Nuff said", learn to read):
Private ownership In some countries, it is legal for an individual to personally make backup copies of a game they own. Individuals may make backup copies for various reasons, perhaps as insurance against losing the game or as redundancy in the event that the original game's medium becomes unreadable. See the section on ROMs and Preservation.
I own both games and made the images, not roms, myself (I can't take credit for the patches of course, I never intended to) so **** you, they're never going down, and will be re-upped when the uploads are removed/deleted/unavailiable etc
Also I gave credit to Phantasian Productions on the description (also had the link to the official thread for the patch release before my thread post link) of the youtube vid, and posted the links on youtube
not here.
EDIT ok I finished reading it (everything unlike you, plz re-read your own wiki link before replying
), but it still says nothing's illegal about filehosting/sharing itself (or backing up images, which isn't illegal either..) and also who cares when most law enforcement overall could care less on the subject:
Legal enforcement There have been few convictions and lawsuits related to ROM trading. Criminal convictions tend to be related to high-profile warez groups which trade combinations of recent films and computer games. In contrast, the ROM scene tends to concentrate mostly on older games. Given the lack of continuing profit from most older games, the grievances of games companies rarely exceed sending a cease and desist letter which demands that the recipient stop distributing the copyrighted works in question.
Even the court rulings could give less of a shit either: (continued from "private ownership" on your link):
However, in the U.S. it has been illegal since 1983 for a user to create their own backups of video game ROMs onto other cartridges. This was decided in the court case of Atari v. JS&A. JS&A manufactured a "game backup" device that allowed users to dump their Atari ROMs onto a blank cartridge. JS&A argued that the archival rule allowed for this. The court disagreed, noting that ROM media was not subject to the same volatility as magnetic media (for which the law was created). Thus, not being so relatively vulnerable, ROMs were not applicable under section 17 USC 117(a)(2).[5]
did you read this time? again it says:
"The court disagreed, noting that ROM media was not subject to the same volatility as magnetic media (for which the law was created). Thus, not being so relatively vulnerable, ROMs were not applicable under section 17 USC 117(a)(2).[5]"Also I never posted a link to the files themselves, if cless or someone wants to delete the links I posted
[which have the real MF/MU downlink after registering (highly reccomended) on that site (again the real download links AREN'T EVEN ON THIS SITE!)] , then I have no probs w/ that, however, no-one but me can delete the real links posted @ EP so it's your loss
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Isn't it exbarrassing that this is all coming from your own post? (this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_image#Legal_status )
, nice try though it's actually quite funny for me when ppl don't read their own post while making false cliams lol.
EDIT 2:
Though, filehosting wasn't said to be "illegal" on your original post and now your posting 2 other links w/ completely diff topics(when was the conversation about software licensing?). Well, whatever, believe what you want, I will be hosting them regardless (while taking no credit), ppl pre-patch images all the time (like undubs) for re-distribution, I don't see why everyone hates the idea so damn much, sor-ry. Most ppl who use my links usually have no problem w/ it, and for ex: ToP's been pre-patched/uploaded time and again w/o
any compliants or cease-and-desist BS on several sources
It's still
derivative work (not illegal or warez) to say the least, even if I'm not the author (take no credit,and always site the source except for KH II FM, since the original KH II FM patch site is down, this actually helps some ppl) , but you still get the wrong idea, it's not meant to promote piracy it's to promote the project itself, nothing more. If they want the patch they have the link to the original patch, if they have problems with the process somehow or want to skip it they can get the pre-patched image.
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