Has anybody tried this service? It purports to give you free, legal emulation of NES and 2600 games, and for as little as $5/mo, give you access to Genny and SNES games.
http://www.consoleclassix.com/
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Has anybody tried this service? It purports to give you free, legal emulation of NES and 2600 games, and for as little as $5/mo, give you access to Genny and SNES games.
http://www.consoleclassix.com/
That is so not legal in any way...
http://www.consoleclassix.com/legal.php
This is the most sound reasoning I've ever read.
EVAR.
I'd never buy their service, but the way they are executing it is pure brilliance.
I would assume they have multiple copies of each game, so more than one person can 'rent' a game at a time. At least I would hope they would.
hahaha
This whole fucking thing won't last a week and I refuse to believe it existed in 2001 when NOA supposedly sent them that letter.
You can only transfer the copy along with the original, so this is illegal. However I am sure they are breaking many other laws before they even get to this provision.Quote:
Lease, Sale, or Other Transfer of Additional Copy or Adaptation.
- Any exact copies prepared in accordance with the provisions of this
section may be leased, sold, or otherwise transferred, along with the
copy from which such copies were prepared, only as part of the lease,
sale, or other transfer of all rights in the program. Adaptations so
prepared may be transferred only with the authorization of the copyright owner.
Supposedly they were shown on G4 and lauded.
It seems to me that this is similar to taking a music CD I buy at the store, making a "backup copy," renting out (or selling) the backup copy while swearing that I'm not using the original copy, so only one copy is being used at any time. I doubt Sony would agree that is legal.
That means about dick.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoleTroll
I agreee. It relates severely to phallus.Quote:
Originally Posted by g0zen
Here is GameSpy mentioning Classix as if it's legal.
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/507/...html?fromint=1
Here is me giving a shit:
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Originally Posted by RoleTroll
I quit reading at "Gamespy".
Well it's a great place for nes roms until NOA shuts these fools down so you can't blame Gamspy for mentioning them.
Um, aren't there like, 400 million sites on the 'net where I can get NES and Genny ROMs for free? What exactly does this do that can't already be done without cost?
These idiots. One night on IRC, the head idiot came into our NES channel to spam this. We got into a discussion about it, and basically, it is legal if you twist a specific wording of one line of that copyright line in their favor.
If you read that line as literally as it's written, it's clearly illegal. Basically, if they got taken to court, they'd get nailed hard.
I dunno if I still have the log, but I'll post specifics if I ever find it.
http://www.everyvideogame.com/
Opaque posted the above link a long time ago. Don't pay that guy for anything.
That site is a Godsend for taking screens.