" Pirate to Sell? (Score:3, Interesting) by SomeOtherGuy (179082) on Wednesday April 07, @10:42AM (#8791981) (Last Journal: Sunday November 03, @02:58PM) I found this interesting:
When I first heard about StarRoms I naturally assumed that the rom images they provide would be obtained directly from Atari. After an email exchange with StarRoms, I was very dissapointed to find out that the roms they are selling were originally downloaded from the internet (i.e. the same images from the same illegal dumping activity that most of us have already). It seems StarRoms are missing the most important point to emulation fans and missing a real benefit that only a legitimate source can provide: we'd like to be sure that the rom images are 100% accurate by having them provided by, or at least authenticated by the manufacturer. Atari should naturally be required to provide them if they are also making money by selling/licencing them. "
What I wonder is were is Starroms getting their roms? Are they dumping the roms themselves or just making money off someone else's rom dump? It takes about 3 seconds to locate roms on edonkey/kazaa.. That's quite a lot of work for them... -Tom
Christopher Tolkien already talked about this in one of his Books about the Middle earth. It's the same 12 book set the the "The Lays of Beleriand" and "The Book of Lost Tales" are in. I'm pretty shure it's the 12 book they talk about it in but I haven't read them in like 5 years. I pretty shure it's in the same book that Numenor being a story about Atlantis. Although that could have been the "Unfinished Tales". Anyway This isn't new news. These are pretty good set of books to read even if you skip the comentary Also you'll learn alot more about the Middle earth.
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Pirate to Sell? (Score:3, Interesting)
by SomeOtherGuy (179082) on Wednesday April 07, @10:42AM (#8791981)
(Last Journal: Sunday November 03, @02:58PM)
I found this interesting:
When I first heard about StarRoms I naturally assumed that the rom images they provide would be obtained directly from Atari. After an email exchange with StarRoms, I was very dissapointed to find out that the roms they are selling were originally downloaded from the internet (i.e. the same images from the same illegal dumping activity that most of us have already). It seems StarRoms are missing the most important point to emulation fans and missing a real benefit that only a legitimate source can provide: we'd like to be sure that the rom images are 100% accurate by having them provided by, or at least authenticated by the manufacturer. Atari should naturally be required to provide them if they are also making money by selling/licencing them.
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-Tom
What I wonder is were is Starroms getting their roms? Are they dumping the roms themselves or just making money off someone else's rom dump? It takes about 3 seconds to locate roms on edonkey/kazaa.. That's quite a lot of work for them...
-Tom
Christopher Tolkien already talked about this in one of his Books about the Middle earth. It's the same 12 book set the the "The Lays of Beleriand" and "The Book of Lost Tales" are in. I'm pretty shure it's the 12 book they talk about it in but I haven't read them in like 5 years. I pretty shure it's in the same book that Numenor being a story about Atlantis. Although that could have been the "Unfinished Tales". Anyway This isn't new news. These are pretty good set of books to read even if you skip the comentary Also you'll learn alot more about the Middle earth.