Downloading a ROM of a game that you don't own is illegal

>Downloading a ROM of a game that you don't own is illegal.

Well, Sup Forums?

depends where you live

Yes, plain and simple fact.
Depending on the law where you live, that's an illegal act and that fact isn't up for debate.

Morality is a separate matter, not to be confused with legality though it's usually part of the reasoning.

90% of said companies dont exist anymore and no one probably knows who owns the rights now anyway

Don't care.

Define illegal in this example

you can't prove that I don't own the game

well what?

Ok then sell me a copy from your official store and dont expect me to track down a 20 year copy on a yard sale that you dont make money off of in the first place

I'm sure glad I don't live in burgerland.

Doesn't change that the law states downloading something you do not legally own is illegal.

it's illegal, but considering some roms have over 10 million downloads i don't think people give a shit

Just delete it in 24 hours mate and it's fine

The question is, who is willing to enforce this?

The major flaw of that argument is that it implies I care.

It probably depends on the age of the game.

And as it's been stated, morality and legality are separate unless you're conventionally moral.

me

I don't give a shit.
The idea of copyright lasting more than like a decade or a decade and a half or something is absolute reprehensible and I have 0 chance of being caught so fuck you

Nintendo did it with the nes mini. I read online tgat they didn't have a rom for mario bros and they just downloaded it from a rom site.

Half of the responses to this are defensive. Why?

That was actually for the Wii U virtual console release of Super Mario Bros. The rom they used had an iNES header.

In most cases even if you own the game it's illegal.

What you can do however is make a copy of the game yourself from software you own.

Not that anybody, companies included, really give a shit since plenty of games are lost to time and will never be re-released in any format.

Thank you kind user. It is to early here and i am too lazy to get my facts straight.

>couldn't even go get a nointro dump

>try to rip own disc
>errors
fuck the police.

>preserving thousands gigabytes of old data for future generations is illegal because you didn't pay for a copy

I live in Sweden.

The cops are busy enough dealing with all the assaults and rapes by the sandniggers than busting a fat 21 year old living with his mom for illegally downloading a PS2 ISO of the japanese version of Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes

Morality and Legality do not directly correlate.

>charging me multiple times to buy the same game over and over and over because:

1) loss of backwards compatibility
2) shit devs porting 20 year old games to PC haphazardly to make a quick $20

I don't give a fuck. The game industry tries to screw me at every turn. Fuck them and their bullshit remasters, re-releases, HD Special Editions.

>The cops are busy enough dealing
Don't you mean covering?

I honestly don't know what's the saddest part in that post.

actually it isn't in some cases.

for example: capcom allow you to download ROMS and keep them for 24 hours.

Probably this

Perhaps the part that he's faggot enough to play sengoku basara instead of DW/SW but he's a swede so

Nope it's because it's not in the public domain and never will be until you die.

>game goes public domain
>nobody has the fucking copy because they lost their copy or decided to be moralfag enough to not pirate
>company also lost the source code long ago
>???

Gotta love Disney fucking up the copyright system. Life of creator + 70 years? That only benifits corporations.

Maybe that could be the goal of some politician's next campaign.

>Maybe that could be the goal of some politician's next campaign.
Two big problems with that are that the average person doesn't really care and doesn't even stop to think that copyright isn't and shouldn't be inherent, and that corporations control who gets put in power more than anybody else and you're a fucking fool if you think otherwise.

Eh. You can at least try. If you don't try corporations have already won.

If you have enough funding you can do a bunch of PSA ads on youtube thet are unskipable. There are a lot of options to inform the public. It just sucks that most of the US population sucks when it comes to things involving the bigger picture.

They constantly push back the date Mickey Mouse fall in public domain, when he does fall in eventually it'll stop and maybe the copyright system will be fixed.

Which will be never.

Disney's gonna fight tooth and nail for their property. Too much money is at stake here. So much fucking greed in corporations. Disney shouod be boycotted if enough people find our about their practices.

If Im playing a game made to be as mindnumbingly stupid as possible I would rather have the characters be over the top and interesting than some seriously boring and melodramatic shitlords. Besides

Glorious Nippon > Smelly Sars Ridden Chinks

This. almost no one gives a shit.

I'm not gonna go hunt for some obscure video game that stopped being made 12 years ago and is only available for a hundred bucks on ebay.

There are probably roms on my computer that I've had for over a decade, and no one has ever cared.
I'm not worried.

Why sites like Coolrom and Emuparadise haven't gone down then? I mean, the owners have gorillions of games technically downloaded that they don't own legally.

>Downloading a ROM of a game that you don't own is illegal.
I'm more surprised its fine to download something you own, if something like this were to pass today it would be straight up downloading anything is illegal.

Does anyone even care

It's not, same as any digitial media for me(music, any software, movies, games)

Everybody seems to get this wrong. Except this guy. Doesnt matter if you own the game or not. Downloading it is still illegal, you are only allowed a copy of the rom if you made it yourself.

It's for preview purposes. I'll delete it right after I view it.

servers are most likely hosted in countries that dont give a fuck

>Downloading a ROM of game you own is illegal

do you see any police around

Why should I care when I'm getting away with it

Not in my jurisdiction, only uploading.

Yes... and?

>download winrar
>police knock down door
>"he downloaded something he doesn't own, get that psychopath"
>manage to hit install a second before they taze you in the balls and tackle you to the ground
>it finishes installing as they are cufflink you
>cop looks
>"damn he owns it now, there's nothing we can do"
>they uncuff you and take your PC because it committed a crime and look at you
>"you're free to go you sicko, but don't let me see your face again"