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908664 No.908664 [Reply] [Original]

So did anyone ever actually get in shit for this? I don't see what the harm was back then.

>> No.908674

>>908664
It's a bluff and completely false.

>> No.908673

I like to imagine that for every law out there, no matter how benign or silly it is, that someone got fucking 800% reamed by the long arm of the law over it.

>> No.908697
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908697

>1999
>computer is Windows 98 and all fucked up because my family recklessly uses it, so crashes everywhere
>I'm still a total computer newbie
>download a NES ROM
>suddenly
>YOU HAVE PERFORMED AN ILLEGAL OPERATION
>mfw

>> No.908716

>>908697
dohohohoho

>> No.908721
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908721

>>908697
>If you do not own a physical copy of this game, you must delete the ROM within 24 hours

>> No.908724

>>908697
oh man, I still remember the first time I played an NES rom. I actually deleted it the next day because I was told keeping it for longer was a crime and I would get caught.

>> No.908736

>>908721
I realized this was a bluff mostly because a friend of the family came over and put all 6 original Mega Man games + Nesticle on our computer and it was a good year before I went out on my own looking for roms and saw that message.

>> No.908751
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908751

>>908721

I got Nintendo Power in the mail around that time, I remember they had a column about emulation. Someone sent them a letter asking if it was legal to have roms if you owned the game - they replied saying that backups are unnecessary and all forms of emulation are illegal regardless. Pretty ballsy in my opinion.

I wish I still had the issue.

>> No.908902
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908902

>Internet Privacy Act of 1995.

>> No.909285
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909285

I remember downloading ROMs during the whole Kazaa era. I had the mentality of, "as long as I don't download a shit ton all at once/constantly, they won't know/care".

Never got those messages, though. Guess the sites I pulled from didn't give any more fucks than I did. 'Course, if they HAD, they might still be around today...

>> No.909291

game revolution had a download section with emulators. some irc room i found had a bunch of roms. the adrenaline rush i felt when downloading a game i didnt own a backup copy for was something.

>> No.909303

Is that a Capcom game warning?

>> No.909319

>>909303
Hm. It looks like the megaman x font.

>> No.909337

Meanwhile, sites like emuparadise are literally the only public archive of what is the majority of the history of videogames.

>> No.909348
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909348

>>908721
That kind of creeped me out. I kept some roms on a floppy and then copied them to the pc when I wanted to play so I could easily wipe them from the hd.

>> No.909372

>>908721

I used to delete and redownload ROMs daily.

I was a stupid fucking kid.

>> No.909390

>>908751
I remember seeing that. I don't remember the exact issue, but I know that I have it somewhere in storage. It would be a bit of trouble to dig it up, but I can definitely confirm that they did that.

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>>908902
>If you are affiliated with any government, anti-piracy group or any other related group, or were formally a worker of one you CANNOT enter this web site, cannot access any of its files and you cannot view any of the HTML files. If you enter this site you are not agreeing to these terms and you are violating code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act signed by Bill Clinton in 1995 and that means that you CANNOT threaten our ISP(s) or any person(s) or company storing these files, and cannot prosecute any person(s) affiliated with this page which includes family, friends or individuals who run or enter this web site.

>> No.909424

>VOTE FOR TOP ROM SITES
God this is nostalgic.

>> No.909558

>>909406
DAT IRC Disclaimer

>> No.909697

>>909319
it's from R-Type Leo

>> No.909704
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909704

>If you don't vote for our website in the top 100, your download may be corrupt or unplayable.

>> No.909720
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>>908721
>mfw people still believe this

>> No.912954

>>909285
http://vimm.net/ my first emulation site its still running and its expanded its libarary it used to be SNES NES Gen and TG16 then they dropped TG16 and GEN for a while now they got them back and more.

>> No.912972

Vimm's Lair kicks ass. It's one of the few rom sites that's any good IMO.

>> No.913232

>>908664
>Copyright law
>Criminal act
>CRIMINAL
Pffffthahahahahah wow.

>> No.913246

I own an actual Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior arcade machine that says it is illegal for use in Canada, the US or Japan every time it boots up. It had a long, full lifespan and came into my hands in 1997 at one of the big old arcade auctions they used to have here in Ohio. I assume it came from Mexico.

>> No.913268

>>909704

>>Click on link 1
>>Clink on link 2
>>click on download
>>YOU DID NOT VOTE! REDIRECTING

Fuck you, just fuck you in the ass.

>> No.913274

>>913272
Yeah we all know that now, Dude. See that's why we're reminiscing about the experiences. Get it?

>> No.913278

>>908721
Hahaha. When I first discovered rom sites and saw that message:

>challenge accepted
>if winzip still works after the timer ran out, lets see how long I can keep these!