This sort of stuff really saddens me.. some stupid game companies are paranoid about 20 year old ROMs being distributed for free. Exactly how is it going to affect them?? It's not like they are going to lose a million dollars because of it.
It's a shame that nostalgia sites for MAME and "abandonware" get closed down so easily.
Have a read of the last couple of paragraphs.. it has relevance world-wide. If Warner succeeded in Australia, it would've been very likely the same pricing would be introduced in other countries.
I totally agree with this idea. It is all fine to complain about MS proprietary formats, but then programs like Star Office proceed to do exactly the same thing! (I just looked in the latest version - 'save as' "Starwriter 3.0", "Starwriter 4.0", "Starwriter 5.0" etc)
Surely an open file format which allows for expandibility (have some undefined codes which can be used by later versions but just ignored by earlier versions), use standard tools for compression (tar, zip, etc) and cooperation between different groups.
I don't want to be forced to use the 1 program all the time.. StarOffice is great for writing letters and memos, but KWord is much better for creating newsletters. I see no problem with this - in the same way that it is good to have many good newsreaders and web browsers.
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This sort of stuff really saddens me..
some stupid game companies are paranoid about
20 year old ROMs being distributed for free.
Exactly how is it going to affect them??
It's not like they are going to lose a million
dollars because of it.
It's a shame that nostalgia sites for MAME and
"abandonware" get closed down so easily.
Have a read of the last couple of paragraphs.. it has relevance world-wide. If Warner succeeded in Australia, it would've been very likely the same pricing would be introduced in other countries.
I totally agree with this idea. It is all fine to complain about MS proprietary formats, but then programs like Star Office proceed to do exactly the same thing! (I just looked in the latest version - 'save as' "Starwriter 3.0", "Starwriter 4.0", "Starwriter 5.0" etc)
Surely an open file format which allows for expandibility (have some undefined codes which can be used by later versions but just ignored by earlier versions), use standard tools for compression (tar, zip, etc) and cooperation between different groups.
I don't want to be forced to use the 1 program all the time.. StarOffice is great for writing letters and memos, but KWord is much better for creating newsletters. I see no problem with this - in the same way that it is good to have many good newsreaders and web browsers.