Question..........


The're legal if

The're only for backup (not to play them on emu's)
You own the game
You remove the roms within 24 hours.
 
There are moves in the US parliament to change the law so that copyright is no longer valid in "obsolete" systems, which they're doing so that they can transfer copyright material from old, decaying archives onto DVD.

However, a nice side-benefit that they haven't spotted (nobody tell them!) is that this law will make roms legal, in America at least - as they define "obsolete" as any system you can no longer purchase from the original manufacturor I think.
 
There are moves in the US parliament to change the law so that copyright is no longer valid in "obsolete" systems, which they're doing so that they can transfer copyright material from old, decaying archives onto DVD.

However, a nice side-benefit that they haven't spotted (nobody tell them!) is that this law will make roms legal, in America at least - as they define "obsolete" as any system you can no longer purchase from the original manufacturor I think.
Not exactly right.
You are allowed to copy and crack obsolete games which need a special hardware no longer in production.
But you may only do so, if you own the ORIGINAL cartridge!

So no free copying, guys!
 
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Are ROMS legal if u own the origanal games for an old system like snes?

DMCA it suppose to say that it should be legal to own one digital image of ROMs you own for backup purposes.

But as someone else said, lawyers will give you different interpretations of what the DMCA means in "legalese". Basically, the DMCA contains a lot of stuff that is not only ambigious, but almost impossible to enforce.
 
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