Is there a reason why new users can't read the rules?

[Zach]

I've run into a lot of sites that are just one big voting circle jerk, that's why I don't use the WWW anymore. I sure do miss places like Plastic Man's site. Those days are long gone now though.

As for the rules here. We don't have a problem with people discussing the rules, like in this thread; you can do that to your hearts content. The line is only crossed when people start naming (active sites), linking to sites that have, or link to illegal to obtain materials.

Discussing the rules is healthy for the community however, and that way everyone knows what they are and what the boundaries are.

[Ryanfaescotland]

The line is only crossed when people start naming (active sites), linking to sites that have, or link to illegal to obtain materials.

Why is that? I know it may seem pretty common sense but when it comes down to it we aren't doing anything illegal and regardless of weather we send people or not the games are still going to be there.

[Zach]

It leaves the forum owners open to possible legal attacks or lawsuits.

i.e criminal facilitation of copyright infringement

[Spellsong]

Stop spamming!

[playmazter76]

To clear on the request on roms of y its wrong just think when Napster got shut down same deal roms have owners and these owners want $$ just the ppl in the music industry want money 4 their songs but news flash plenty torrents, sites, peer 2 peer programs 2 get what u like. I know this cliche here but google is defintely ur friend.

[Zach]

When you're dealing with Nintendo et al then yeah it's probably a question of money or other motives. But a lot of classic game authors don't really care about the money, and a fair share of them would probably relinquish their copyright if they could be contacted in some way.

[gforce75]

Because there is no real consequence to it and plus some users IM me about it... so... people will do what they can do to find it. Well, just to help out, it can be found out at the one site... just google it and type "xoijljlj" then press the power button on your computer, watch the sky and the roms shall come

[zionprophecy]

I think....that....in todays day in age, covering your butts from legal matters should be priority number one. And the questions that are being banned to ask here are prolly some of the easier ones to find asnwers to from google and yahoo.
I mean try and search without posting why an emulator isn't working and giving your PC specs in the little search bar haha. I think its great we can discuss the emulators without worrying about legal matters.
The things we cant...well....like i said, its an easy search.

[Alucard_The_Dex]

Honestly i dont see WHY people need to ask in the first place. Just like everyone answers back with Search google the fact is people are to lazy to look for roms themselfs yet they would sign up for an acount on a forum with people they dont know and post such questions in hopes of people posting links to proper sites. Its amazing the lenghts lazy people would go threw to avoid doing a task that is more simple then the work around. And the fact they say "where can i get (insert console here) roms?" means they know exactly what they are looking for and not just a clueless person wondering around forums in hopes to find the all in one answer.

Not to mention the fact no one reads rules stems to lack of enforment befor signing up to the forum. A simple Please read this even if the site has a timer befor you can move along people will walk away and make toast instead of reading. Better ways of implimenting people to read the rules like have a "quiz" with Asorted questions like true or false would engage the person to actually read the questions and answer it properly befor allowing to sign up.

But all in all the truth will be you will get that one asshole that goes threw all the trouble to just break the rules thinking they will ither get a answer or distrube the peace for a entertaning minute will always happen. So honestly If better implimented ways of forcing people to read the rules first would prevent the "harshness" of banning and deleteing posts instead of a polite read the rules or google it by the simple fact of knowing that they HAD to have read the rules and didnt follow them anyways.


Just my thoughts cuz i see rule breaking on forums everywheres and felt a need to vent XD sorrys.

[Zapotech]

This discussion is laughable. For one, without copyrighted and/or commercial ROMs available there would be no practical use for emulators. Secondly, sites which host emulators only rely on other sites hosting the ROMs(and paying for the bandwidth) in order to exist. I'm sure this site is run on a relatively small inexpensive server since it hosts no ROMs and I still get server busy messages. Letting the guys hosting the ROMs pay for everything and avoiding the server headaches, that's the real reason behind this. The legal issue is the smoke screen. Take the most recent emulators, for example... in order to make them function most of them require a copyrighted BIOS. Sure, this site doesn't host the BIOS files but it facilitates the commission an illegal act. A good analogy would be giving away unloaded guns, emulators don't kill people; people kill people.

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There must be a blue moon phase lately, me posting here is a rarity. You can ban me now for nonconformity, thanks.