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Originally Posted by Hard core Rikki
Neither MP3's.
The Virtual Console from Nintendo is an authorized reseller of ROMs, and contains literally the sameversions as "traditional" ROMs (other than wrapped inside a container with a few html files added).
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Well let's not cut corners there, in some of our countries (Holland and Canada) it's perfectly legal to download movies and music. Who knows what's allowed and what is not countries that do not care about copyright in the first place, since politicians actually have real matters to worry about?
Anyway, for Emuforums it is clear that there is a no tell/no lock attitude. No one cares, but also we don't like warez bragging. Emulation is a gray area, let's not help it to the black side of legality. Hypocrisy? In some cases definitely, that's not our care actually, as long as we can provide objective information to those who just want to run their games.
If you'd ask advise about a knife and how to slice most efficiently, we'd gladly help you. If you'd ask how you could most effectively cut a piece of meat, we'd still do. If that piece of meat would be your girlfriend, we'd tell you to bugger off. (Okay, copyright infringement =/= murder or assault, but both are illegal in the US of A)
[touch of reason]
Although said that ROMs cannot be downloaded legally, there's exceptions (as HCR pointed out). You already pointed out the licensing system, and how you have the right to play your games. I wholeheartedly agree on that one personally, and I definitely believe that if companies want to state that I don't "own" a game when I buy it, but have a license, then the obtaining of a backup should be legal as well, regardless of the source.
However, this is still not the case from a legal point of view, hence why you will not find support with materials that you pointed out have obtained in an illegal manner. We'd rather keep this place alive than take the risk with those copyright legal whores in the US