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Best websites for PSP games for the PPSSPP emulator
07-06-2013, 10:22 PM (This post was last modified: 07-06-2013 10:23 PM by Special.)
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RE: Best websites for PSP games for the PPSSPP emulator
Jesus Christ, look at all the lawyers up in here, hate to burst your bubble but you're all completely wrong on this matter.

There have been official statements on legality of emulators from nintendo and many others, this isn't exactly new territory.

They said this exactly:
Emulation is perfectly legal. BUT to legally play games, YOU must rip your OWN rom image yourself. The same applies to a bios file, the ONLY legal way you can use a bios on an emulator is if YOU dump you OWN system bios.
If you own the system or the games, it IS STILL ILLEGAL to download/upload them from/to the internet.
ALSO you can NOT keep the rom/bios dump if you no longer have ownership of said game/console. If its lost, stolen, sold, given away, you no longer legally can keep your rom and bios dumps.
If the game/system are broken its fine (which kind of puts a weird twist on it, as you can buy broken games/consoles and then legally be able to get roms/bios files lol)

Now there are a few "grey areas" such as, if you own the game, downloading it isnt much of a problem. Since really no one is going to police it, and if you own the game, theres really no way to prove you didnt rip it yourself, and just say you downloaded it to compare it to yours, or maybe just say someone else maybe used your internet and downloaded it, idk. But there really is no way they can prove you didnt dump it yourself, so they wont go after it really.
Also in copyright, it states that if the game is no longer able to be purchased nor the system/hardware used to play it are no longer able to be purchased from stores, then you are allows to share the game files and play it on an emulator. BUT virtual console, xbox live arcade, psn network have alot of these old games for sale, so that kind of makes this tricky.
This does NOT cover a bios. Downloading a bios is and always will be illegal. (because of this, alot of emulators use high-level emulation to avoid the need for bios files)

Read the EULA of what you are regarding making "backups" of because they are all different, some say you can make a personal backup and others are against it no matter what. In fact, the Wii's website says that all ROMs and ISOs are illegal. Most software companies allow you to create a copy for your own personal backup, and if you ever sell or destroy the original, you must do the same for the copy.

Same applies to MP3s. You can't download a bunch of MP3s, even if you own the CD. You can rip your own music and keep it for yourself, but you can't steal someone else's copy.

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html#p2p
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-di...tml#backup
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