No Excuse For Less-Than-Legal ROMs Anymore?

jvm writes "As per a previous story, you can now buy some Atari ROMs legally from StarROMs. I've selected 14 games, easily paid for them, downloaded the ROM images, and then played the games. For completeness, I even confirmed with Atari that StarROMs is legit. Now, I've posted on why it's time to pay up or admit you're a pirate."

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Re:Righteous Twit

[whorfin]

So you think that because you pirated the software in the first place, and thus 'kept it alive', that you're now entitled to it, and anybody who suggests otherwise is a 'righteous twit'?

If the MAME developers had the foresight to have gone to Atari with a business plan for selling the archaic ROM images with their emulator, then perhaps they could have benefitted from it.

Perhaps the authors of MAME should charge for their product if they want it to be a business...