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Is ROM Collecting Wrong, or Just Misunderstood?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the piracy-or-public-domain dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Game Bunker has posted an interesting article on whether you should own roms or not. With the latest piracy concerns, I think it's a good topic to bring up." The various writers at Game Bunker do a good job of showing the different sides of this issue, with some siding with industry while others, like most of us, merely want to play old games without having to dig up an ancient console.

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  1. Is Dildo Collecting Wrong, or Just Misunderstood? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  2. Legally speaking.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lets compare this to satellite signal theft. There's a big debate raging on the Canadian west coast about people ripping off DirecTV signals. Now, Canadian law (I'm not sure about American) states that as long as a company could reasonably supply a given population with a broadcast service, but fails to do so, the people of that population are not breaking the law by acquiring the signals through a means other than the company providing it.

    So, using precedent and the same logic, could you not say that if the game or system is simply unavailable for purchase, is it not therefore 'legal' to acquire it through the only means available to you (ROMs)?