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Originally Posted by TheCloudOfSmoke
I found this piracy FAQ from Nintendo very informative. It also answers some of your questions, hushy. It cleared up a lot of myths that the internetz made up. Even worse, they said that backing up your own games is illegal (Nintendo claims). Now knowing that information, that really puts this forum at risk IMO even though this forum is supposed to promote the legal side of emulation. Just knowing that backing up your own stuff is supposably illegal and that this forum has many guides to backing up your games. Check it out here:
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp |
Yeah, I read that a while ago. It's just Nintendo taking the obvious approach--condemning piracy. Protecting their assets, they say. Oh, I see, so they can release the same NES games that used to be available at Funcoland for 20 cents and sell them for the GBA for 20 dollars.
As far as I know, it's illegal to copy cartridges in the US, but I'm more concerned about CDs. What happens if you make a backup and the original explodes? Do you have to destroy the backup now? Some argue that's the point of the backup, to have it in case the original one explodes. But shouldn't you keep the original in safe keeping and let the backup explode? I don't know. And it goes beyond the US, because many people who browse this site are not from the US. And this site isn't based in the US, so what rules do we have to go off of?
It's a huge grey area, and it's been bugging me a lot lately.