Borrowing ROMs

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Console Classix is trying introduce a new old concept to the world of P2P file sharing, at least as it applies to NES and SNES ROM images. You download their client program, and then you can "borrow" one ROM image at a time from their site, play it, and then release it for someone else to use. There are a finite number of ROM images on the site, each one ostensibly dumped from a legitimate and unique cartridge. I wonder if this will allow an end-run around some of the questionable legality of file-sharing... and I wonder if this could work for MP3s, movies, and other forms of media?" I think its pretty reasonable, but I doubt that the industries will agree.

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Renting Question

[kneeo]

Do Rental car companys like National, Budget, Alamo, etc, have to get special licences from Ford, Dodge, Chevy, etc to rent their cars/trucks to people???????

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[elinenbe]

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