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ShadowFox

Member since: Mar 20th, 2007

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Origin auto-adds EA games bought through Steam -- no, it's not creepy (Joystiq)

Feb 27th 2012 11:47PM Wow, way to be behind the times, noticed this weeks ago.

Let GLaDOS guide you to your destination, you monster (Joystiq)

Jan 10th 2012 2:47AM Someone made one of these almost two years ago.

Next for Minecraft: Pet wolves (Joystiq)

Mar 18th 2011 8:07PM Awesome!

N64oid for Android completes the retro Nintendo emulator trinity (Download Squad)

Mar 4th 2011 2:31PM @Sebastian Anthony
If the download comes from your original disc, your fine. If it comes from a torrent, DDL, or otherwise, it's illegal.

And to clarify, I have absolutely no problems with piracy. As it stands, I believe the current global laws are to rigid and I fully support the efforts of the members of the pirate party and others seeking to stop the far reaching hand of groups like the MPAA and RIAA.

/thread

N64oid for Android completes the retro Nintendo emulator trinity (Download Squad)

Mar 4th 2011 2:20PM @kojo87

None of my comments had anything to do with direct-linking or otherwise. My statement was just that of clarifying Sebastian giving readers false information about the legality of -downloading- ROMs...

@Sebastian Anthony

Regardless of my analogy being poor or not, let's look at your example:

"I have a DVD box set of House. But I move to America, and leave my House DVDs in the UK. My friend offers to burn some DVDs, so I can watch my favorite TV show."

In this situation, it is still a legal gray area. If you friend is only burning a single copy of _your_ House DVDs and sending them to you, why not just send your original box set in the mail? If you mean ripping them and then you download them from him, technically this would still be considered legal as it was from _your_ original, legally owned DVD copy.

By the letter of the law, if you friend then kept the original DVDs as his own to watch and keep, then you are now in possession of illegally obtained DVD copies of which the originals are not yours as they are now in your friends possession.

According to national law, copying DVDs is legal under fair-use in the US, but as laid out by the DMCA, breaking any encryption used to protect the disc is illegal. In the UK, as of April 2009 making a copy of copywrighted media without the copyright owners consent is also illegal. This includes CDs and DVDs.

Again, this is far away from the statement I initially made, and as the copyright law is clearly laid out anyway for downloading ROMs, your point is moot.

N64oid for Android completes the retro Nintendo emulator trinity (Download Squad)

Mar 4th 2011 11:24AM @Sebastian Anthony

I believe that it applies to all of Nintendo's IP on a global scale, I don't see any logical reason why it would be a regional thing.

As far as your question about saying that you extracted it yourself, that would be akin to say copying another students homework. Sure, you could probably do the assignment yourself, but you didn't. You cheated. You stole.

N64oid for Android completes the retro Nintendo emulator trinity (Download Squad)

Mar 4th 2011 10:48AM @Sebastian Anthony


Clearly, you still operate under the same archaic assumption that many
people have been doing for years. Even if you own a legitimate copy of
a game, it is still -illegal- to download a ROM. How can you seriously
not know that? I'm not saying I'm anti-piracy, but I'm just saying
give people the real facts before the potentially get themselves in a
heap of trouble. Straight from the Nintendo website and this page has
been there for years. http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom

12 Days of Joyswag: StarCraft 2 Collector's Edition, t-shirt, Razer Abyssus mouse and Vespula mousepad (Joystiq)

Dec 20th 2010 3:12AM I would say at least a good 10 years before Half-Life 3...

12 Days of Joyswag: A Fallout: New Vegas neon sign (yeah, f'real) (Joystiq)

Dec 17th 2010 5:43PM Who wouldn't want this in their room, I mean c'mon! I would totally use it at night to scare off the monsters under the bed.

Beware: malware version of Microsoft Security Essentials in the wild (Download Squad)

Oct 26th 2010 1:52PM With my unfortunate experience with TrendMicro, I've found, they actually do have this type of password system in place.