bigjoe
02-01-2004, 06:01 PM
I've heard some stories of members of AGN being threatened with bans for having links to rom hacking sites and open domain roms(or, in other words, roms programmed from scratch) in their signatures. Now I know the issue isnt advertising, because its already been concluded that advertising via your signature isnt in the wrong.
And I also seem to remember it being resolved that anything related to emulation can be posted, so long as there isnt copyrighted ROMs on the site.
Now, I ask, why? Rom hacks are as legal as making modifications of commercial games. Because the actual 'ROM' isnt provided on the site, but an IPS file, which contains no copyrighted material. Just a line of bytes which explains to a program how to apply a patch to a file. So why are people being threatened for having links to rom hacking sites in their signatures?
And I also seem to remember it being resolved that anything related to emulation can be posted, so long as there isnt copyrighted ROMs on the site.
Now, I ask, why? Rom hacks are as legal as making modifications of commercial games. Because the actual 'ROM' isnt provided on the site, but an IPS file, which contains no copyrighted material. Just a line of bytes which explains to a program how to apply a patch to a file. So why are people being threatened for having links to rom hacking sites in their signatures?