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Originally Posted by jonc2006
that is taken directly from the legal section of the FAQ found on nintendo's corporate website. not everyone may agree with it, but thats not really something that can be challenged by us.
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I'd have to say that is at least the most truthful thing to come from Nintendo, they could of claimed that even backup copies of legally bought media were illegal just like emulators are illegal no matter their method of creation or development.
This is pretty much what the courts in the USA have deemed, you are only entitled to a backup copy off of the original media that you own. You are only entitled to a backup off of your legally owned original media, not every copy in existence as it's considered someone else's backup. Also the 24 hour rule is bull crap, as is the common removal of ESA protected titles from rom sites. Distributing and downloading of copyrighted content is illegal no matter what fallacy or excuse you try to hide behind.
As was mentioned as long as you don't foolishly admit to downloading copyrighted material, there shouldn't be a problem (don't ask, don't tell policy). The only time there is an issue is when a member openly admits to downloading copyrighted material (games, bios, firmware etc..) or makes it startling obvious that the material was illegally downloaded (posting pictures of a collections of games or bios with common scene release names or from different regions).