Flash back for the ole timers

[Blues]

Just curious general opinion on the how piratey it is to say play a SNES emulation ROM of a game that you own on a PS2 compilations disc.

 

[frase]

I still do not understand what you are getting at. I do not own a PS2 Comp disc or a PS2 for that matter.
It is a fine line regarding copyright in regards to ROMS and BIOS, though up to the individual.

I have taken my post down anyway. If I was to purchase something from another site which was say a version of an SNES original. Nintendo do not make any profit of of that the seller does.

I do this for my own use nothing more nothing less as I enjoy messing around with tech and mods. I have purchased most of my originals on systems I have owned in the past, so technically why should I purchase another years down the line.

 

[Diggs]

Funny this is a topic about the history of the TRS-80

Sorry @Porthos , I was a VIC-20 kind of guy back then - chuckles......

 

[sapphirescales]

I've noticed a number of sites now blocking entrance if you have an ad-blocker on

Just disable Javascript for that particular site. No plugins required.

 

[Markverhyden]

Just curious general opinion on the how piratey it is to say play a SNES emulation ROM of a game that you own on a PS2 compilations disc.

Generally speaking using something copyrighted is not really considered as piracy. However trading, buying and/or selling, is. But a lot depends on how picky the copyright holders are. I'd venture a guess most holders will just ignore instances of "personal" use. Like patching ESXi to allow loading macOS. Just an FYI. For copyrights created after 1/1/1978 the creator/owner retains the copyright for the rest of their life plus 70 years.

 

[Philippe]

Without taking into account that most old games copyright owners/companies are long gone by now...

 

[britechguy]

The software industry should have long ago worked out conventions for the use of abandonware, and there is a sh*tload of it out there that can still be useful, but there seems to be no one or no entity still in existence who can manage the intellectual property rights. And there are others, the IBM TTS software, that IBM has left wide open on their servers, but where no official permission has ever been granted for anyone to use it, and many queries about doing so have been made.

Copyright for software should be much shorter than for other media, and if any publisher goes completely out of existence via actual closing, not being bought out and merged into some other company, that software should automatically be "fair game" for anyone to use within 2 years, max.

 

[MDD1963]

Annnnd Youtube back to threatening to disallow watching videos over status of Ublock Origin as blocking adds... (I enjoyed the 8-10 day hiatus of threats after re-enabling Ublock Origin a few days after YT's last round of 'hardball'...)

Anyone found a solution?

 

[GTP]

Annnnd Youtube back to threatening to disallow watching videos over status of Ublock Origin as blocking adds... (I enjoyed the 8-10 day hiatus of threats after re-enabling Ublock Origin a few days after YT's last round of 'hardball'...)

Anyone found a solution?

Freetube as previously mentioned...

 

[frase]

Freetube as previously mentioned...

Or Rumble