[Paratech]

I think the copyright laws need reexamined. I'm sorry, but putting someone in jail for 5-life for downloading Atari 2600 ROMS is stupid. There should be limits on digital data and frankly, our jails are overpopulated at the moment, we're letting child molesters out as is, and we're going to replace them with people who play video games that haven't been sold *new* for 20 years?

You know even priests I've talked to in Confession think that's rather lame. They even told me it wasn't really worth mentioning in Confession, it was like I picked flowers off of a public area to them.

I respect the fact this site has a zero tolerance policy, to try not to get into trouble, but Ihateliberals seems to not understand that when you go to war, you should pick your battles. The people who should be punished for Piracy are those stealing games that are currently being made, games like Crysis, not Atari 2600 Pac Man.

There's also the fact some gamers can say, and would be honest, that they owned the cartridges or other medium that they digitized, but that it broke. I'm not keeping dead Commodore 64 diskettes around to prove that I had them dumped when they were working. I'm not keeping ever Sony Playstation I've purchased to prove I have a right to the bios that was in them.

Things break, you can't keep everything you ever purchased to prove you have a right to the digital data you extracted from the games or consoles.

But no, companies are greedy, they own the politicians, and corrupt the laws, look at Disney getting to extend Mickey Mouse when it should be public domain, thank you Sonny Bono and your corrupt political friends who sold the US Citizens out to greed. I hope your money was worth it!

 

[mudlord]

Bravo Paratech, couldnt have said it better myself! .

Your right, we do agree on a lot of things....

 

[Linktothepast]

Actually i would like ihateliberals to go to China for example and tell a worker that his son is a thief and should go to jail because he used a copy of a game he couldn't afford to buy with his impressive 100 Euros a month salary. That his kid is a thief and so is his father that works all day for a lousy 100 euros a month and doesn't pay for a game. And then come back and tell us the tale

 

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Exactly what I have been saying about copyrights all along Paratech....they despereately need to fix those bogus things.

Once something is unsupported, there is no reason why it should be illegal to it obtain through other means.

 

[Mako Eyes]

Paratech, that was excellent and by far the greatest thing said in this thread. I especially like this part:

...it was like I picked flowers off of a public area to them.

I never thought of it that way before....

But yes, you're absolutely right. It's understandable for games that are still in production, but downloading those long out of print should not be illegal. Downloading old games or getting them used from eBay or pawn shops; these are the only methods to get your hands on these classics nowadays and they all have one thing in common:

Companies will not get ANY profit from them, regardless of how they are obtained.

So, why should it matter to them? If you ask me, companies like Atari should host a huge online database of 2600, 5200, etc ROMs. At least then the distribution holds its legitimacy. You have Nintendo, Sega, and Hudson reselling what used to be long dead classics on the Wii Virtual Console. Personally, I see nothing wrong with that. Companies should either take this approach or stop complaining about people downloading the software that they would have forgotten about otherwise.

 

[Phil]

Sseconded. theyre just greedy..

 

[Kirby]

I still wanna hear his excuse claiming how piracy caused him serious damages....

 

[Paratech]

I wanna hear about a guy found guilty of pirating ET for the Atari 2600, but then found criminally insane and sent to a state operated psyche ward for the 5 year sentence!

 

[Mako Eyes]

I wanna hear about a guy found guilty of pirating ET for the Atari 2600, but then found criminally insane and sent to a state operated psyche ward for the 5 year sentence!

For the record, grave-robbing is considered a crime in most places.

 

[Paratech]

For the record, grave-robbing is considered a crime in most places.

But Indiana Jones makes it so cool, I wonder if he'd hunt down those Cartridges? oO

Indiana Jones and the Crappy Video games of Doom!

:lol:

Jack Thompson would be the bad guy, think of all the people who want to see his fate in the movie! Maybe he'd wind up like some of the other villains!

 

[Cid Highwind]

Maybe we're chatting with his distant cousin, he certain has his stubbornness and lack of knowledge of the law