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Cnn Does An Emulation Article.


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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/04/07/emulators/index.html

 

"Finding the games themselves requires a lot of searching. There is a lot of turnover on sites. They're mostly run by kids. The site you get a game from may not be up in a few weeks."

 

That's funny, because they don't even mention P2P, where ROMs are as common as water.

 

And is anyone else noticing the sudden interest in arcade emulation by the mainstream? There was a TechTV Dark Tip a few weeks ago about setting up an Xbox to play MAME games.

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Yeah, it is, but what do you expect? It's journalism.

 

You know, the more I think about it, the more I think that this article was made to try to discourage kids from pirating stuff. Maybe it's just the paranoia kicking in.

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Are they even playing emulators in that picture? Looks like Counter Strike.

 

But this is a very sloppy written and crappy article...

LOL dude, they show CS in the photo.

 

"ROMs, or the game programs, are technically illegal unless you buy or download a licensed version. Otherwise the content creators aren't really being compensated. Nobody has successfully sued yet though."
Partly true. As of September 2002, All games that are not manufactured and not resold in any form of media is consider freeware unless the product is re-relased by the company holder.

 

It's shotty on how the law is told, but it means that most roms are legal because they are not being redistribute and resold by the/any LEGAL(Non bootlegging, offical distributer for the game) companies. Lets take Chrono Trigger. If the PS1 remake never came out, the SNES ROM would be consider free and legal. But since it was re-released for the PS1 (remanufactured for a new system, but still the same game, under new a media[CD rom]. Even if it did come with extra stuff, it is still considered the same game to the law, unless stated other wise. Since the law is hard to understand to begin with.). The article was misinformed to begin with. Although the reverse engineering thing goes either way.

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Yeah, it is, but what do you expect? It's journalism.

No, this is bad journalism. This is like the guy that graduated at the bottom of his journalism class. :unsure: Some of the thoughts don't even connect.

 

I love the part when it says "If gaming is your hobby, look into emulation." Where thet hell did that come from? Its just so out of place.

 

They sent the good journalists to cover more important stories like Donald Trump's hair. :-D

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That was horribly written. No actual information in the article other than there's this thing called emulation... and it involves using a computer to play old games... and downloading things for free.

 

Nothing specific at all...

 

...other than we are sick, evil, twisted bastards for downloading stuff for free.

 

Is it still paranoia if they really are after you?

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No, this is bad journalism. This is like the guy that graduated at the bottom of his journalism class. :unsure: Some of the thoughts don't even connect.

Well, Custer graduated at the bottom of his class at West Point, and look at what happened to him.

 

Thank you, WWN Trivia.

 

EDIT: Also, I remember reading an article not too long ago (It might have been posted here), where all these organizations are going to try to portray "file-sharers" as child porn distributors, and a bunch of other made-up crap.

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