Re: preparation regarding copyright
@roel, But here's the problem. Emulators are, by definition, illegal. Only because console manufacturers cause brouhaha over it. Problem is without them, there would be no genuine accessible Pokemon Crystal. You couldn't get a screen-reader to run on the actual hardware. Nintendo has, by and large, been one of the least vocal or forward-thinking about accessibility, and there hasn't even been a cross-play effort made by them equivalent to Microsoft's Play anywhere, or even any remote streaming protocols that both MS and Sony have manufactured. But I digress. What I'm saying is there is no legal way to obtain an emulator. For that reason, if it were truly an all or nothing approach, Pokemon Crystal access could not be uploaded and posted about on this very forum, because even if it were talked about, people would be asking where the hell to obtain the thing, and there is no legal answer as to how. Even if someone bought a gameboy advance, the Pokemon Crystal cartridge, rom-dumping/desoldering tools and the like, managed to dump the Gameboy Advance rom as well as the Pokemon Crystal rom, your homegrown emulator would not be quite the same as Visual Boy Advance. You would have to embed Lua scripting support into the thing. Then finally load your rom with the accessibility scripts. And you couldn't pass on your source like you could with other diy projects as it's not open source. No one is going to go to that length just to emulate a freaking game. It's why Mame has people donate hardware to them because they're the ones that have the x-rays to rom dump the hardware, which for some rare hardware is a one-shot or nothing deal.
Same obviously goes for the Mess Apple stuff. While it is again true that games too are a want instead of a need, this is audiogames.net, so this goes beyond the described movie issue into essentially deciding whether or not important landmarks in accessible gaming history has to be deleted or not, at least as far as this site is concerned.
Applevis, the ACB Radio and such have all embraced Mess Apple without questioning the legality, as truly no harm is done here. I think, even with Article 13/15/17/whatever the hell it is, no one's going to actually get sued over this.
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