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Reply #40 on: July 01, 2013, 11:16:41 PM
Not sure if I'm right but I read that an emulator is legal, it's the roms that are illegal.  Thought maybe they got the licenses or something.

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Reply #41 on: July 02, 2013, 12:21:17 PM
If rom's where Illegal to down load I would have been thrown in prison by now. Since I download a lot of roms to play classic games that I don't own. So I highly doubt they're illegal to download.

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Reply #42 on: July 02, 2013, 12:55:26 PM
Quote from: Petrie85,Jul 2 2013 on  11:21 AM
If rom's where Illegal to down load I would have been thrown in prison by now. Since I download a lot of roms to play classic games that I don't own. So I highly doubt they're illegal to download.
Roms are indeed illegal.

http://voices.yahoo.com/are-video-game-rom...ow-8398607.html

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Reply #43 on: July 02, 2013, 01:21:49 PM
Well I guess they don't care since I'm still downloading them. And not one thing has happened to me yet.

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Reply #44 on: July 02, 2013, 04:27:26 PM
IIRC emulation is not illegal if you own the license or property to begin with, considering you have already paid the company to do what you want with their hardware/software

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Reply #45 on: July 02, 2013, 04:56:02 PM
^ This is correct. You can use roms/emulators if you own the original game.

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