Posted by Just Michael on 15, 2000 at 9:34 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Do you have a life? posted by MikEy on 15, 2000 at 9:11 PM:
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: :I am just wondering how is Arcade 2000 ruining a "good thing"? What "good thing" is he ruining exactly?
: Well, how many arcade games do you actually own that give you the right to have the roms on your hard drive?... all 2100. Probably not. As this gives companies perfect ammunition of how they are being ripped off, I just don't think promoting piracy is helping us any. I personally don't care how many roms you download and click "Yes I have legal right to download this here rom" when you really don't. That's nearly impossible to police. But when they are all given on cd-rom, more sites will be shut down. Does anyone remember what happened to Dave's? Jeesh. Because there are 2 sites left you don't think there's any reason to worry?
: You better sit and study real hard for your spelling exam tomorrow because the real world is more complicated than what you think it is. The thing being ruined is the distribution of ROMs. Did you think they were public domain?
I don't have 2100 roms on my hard drive. Also I have never gotten a cd of roms from anyone. From what I have heard, all the roms that Mame supports wouldn't even fit on 1 cd. Besides that, ROM sites normally get shut down. Either by possible legal actions or the site owner doesn't want to have to keep paying the high bandwidth costs. It sounds like you care nothing about playing the games of our youth and the memories associated with that. Your just concerned with getting roms. You just want something for nothing. How pathetic...