Not illegal to download roms?

gagosmasteris sharing your food illegal? :)

http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-100719-chicken-nugget-caper,0,5907552.storyIt depends.

Replying to #21

Well I only read the title but isn't there a difference between stealing and sharing?

ace1o1I know a few people on here who have been fined for downloading copyrighted content.

...not me :P
[me=Yoshi2889]is downloading Art Academy....oops[/me]

gagosmasteris sharing your food illegal? :)

No

its illegal period.....

usernameladiesman217 · #22Well I only read the title but isn't there a difference between stealing and sharing?

Not in terms of copyright laws. Sharing is only legal if you have permission from the copyright holder. You can't legally share what isn't legally yours.

Replying to #25

Ah yeah that's true. We researched "terms of agreement" when installing a program or game in school today. Turns out that the game you purchase never really becomes your property, you only buy the rights to install and play it on your pc. So in essence lending a game to a friend may be seen as illegal.

In Belgium, it's legal to download everything, but illegal to upload.
I do both :)

Depends on where[quote="jabaash2"]I heard downloading music isn't illegal but uploading is illegal.
Does this apply to games?
[/quo you live if you're Dutch it's not illegal if you download it for Personel USe only, but it'ss illegal to upload/ or share the software.Long line Holland :)te]

MerugopDepends on where

Replying to #28

you live if you're Dutch it's not illegal if you download it for Personel USe only, but it'ss illegal to upload/ or share the software.Long line Holland :)

YAY

athemoe · #27In Belgium, it's legal to download everything, but illegal to upload.
I do both :)

Here in the Philippines you are free to download anything & everything you want, same goes for uploading stuff onto the net.The only illegal thing to do here is to mass produce whatever digital media you downloaded & sell it to make a profit. Oh but wait! Even if that's illegal people still do it :PHeck, even the local "law enforcers" are in on it as well. So long as you give them protection money, your wares will be untouched.

Replying to #30

actually it's still illegal, we just don't have enough laws to enforce it. The only law we have against piracy is the RA 9239, which forbade anyone to burn the files they downloaded "illegally". Other than that it's free game for everyone. Fun fact people in the Philippines rarely buy original video games or software for that matter, since it costs around P2000-P3000 (which is around 70 US dollars) a game.

Replying to #31

You really can't explain to people outside the country how ridiculously expensive games are to us unless you give them an analogy. Say our monetary unit is the American Dollar, now go by saying, in our country 1 original game costs 2,000~3,000 US Dollars.

Replying to #31

Add to this what I said earlier, that corrupt law enforcers ( & even Government officers) do partake in the country's Piracy syndicate. You don't believe me? Then why does Caloocan North Mall or even that one mall in Quiapo that has stalls selling pirated stuff still around? Government Protection my friend.

Replying to #32

No, what you actually need to supply are two other pieces of information: the average salary and the price of a commodity item, such as a loaf of bread.

Replying to #33

Ah good idea :)Unfortunately the amount of Minimum Wage one earns in this country is dependent on which region you're from with some areas having better values & with other not so. In the Capital, the mandated minimum wage is currently at 382Php or roughly $7.60USD per day. The sad thing is most employers are trying to find ways to curb this by either mass lay off to cut down the number of employees to give salaries to, or cutting off a day or two of one's working days to compensate for an increase in pay. Given these "options" most employees would rather choose to work for more days with lesser pay, rather than working for lesser days with a measly 22 peso increase in their daily wage.So let's use the value I mentioned, daily wage is 382Php a day ($7.60USD) and the cost of a loaf of bread is somewhere between 45~60Php, that's roughly around $1.50USD.

Cahos Rahne Veloza · #30Here in the Philippines you are free to download anything & everything you want, same goes for uploading stuff onto the net.The only illegal thing to do here is to mass produce whatever digital media you downloaded & sell it to make a profit. Oh but wait! Even if that's illegal people still do it :PHeck, even the local "law enforcers" are in on it as well. So long as you give them protection money, your wares will be untouched.

oh so you live in phil too?

But is downloading ROMs illegal in Holland?
Just wanna know...

minimum wage in South Africa is R10 an hour.
that's give or take 1.25 dollars

yoshi2889 · #36But is downloading ROMs illegal in Holland?
Just wanna know...

no,
downloading is legal,
uploading is illegal (look out, Kiekoes!)

Replying to #38

GREAT >:D

where i live, it is illegal to do both, but the law doesnt really care about it :P. its so stupid because there lots of places that sell pirated dvds and pirated games. so, yeah, i do both :)