Re: Is it Time to Re-Discuss Copyright Rules on This Forum
I think the reason is based on the fact that anyone can post a rom like it's nothing, in a matter or technical term here. But Pokemon Crystal was a project that took time and effort to debug an entire game's text portion and add speech functionality. Gamefreak as we all know has shown no desire to improve accessibility if you saw the remote location programs for Pokemon Go were banned because of, quote, cheating. True someone may use it for that purpose, but this was when Q was I believe experimenting with a program that might have made the thing potentially accessible. I've kind of written off Pokemon Go anyway, but this is just to illustrate my point. In fact now that REtroarch has brought this debate into a new light, some of the developers of older titles have flat out said that as long as the project isn't making them any money, i.e it's old, and the accessibility can help future blind players enjoy them, then by all means go for it. This isn't an official legal statement by any means, but Retroarch's accessibility has really made people start taking new stances on the argument. That being said I believe what Liam said in the Retroarch topic about discussion being fine but you're on your own for getting roms off forum is par for the course in terms of keeping this site safe. After all, until there is a legitimate way for one to be able to rom their own purchased cartridges/disks/machines, there is technically no way around obtaining roms.
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