[Coco] Copyrighted ROM's

Zippster zippster278 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 12:54:18 EST 2018


Perhaps you could also just upload your installer package to the archive and tell people it’s there?

The ROMs are already there, so…

- Ed


> On Nov 14, 2018, at 11:36 AM, RETRO Innovations <go4retro at go4retro.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11/14/2018 6:43 AM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I have almost finished my program that will Mass Flash the cocoflash pak
>> 
>> My dilemma is how to provide this to cocoflash owners since the ROM PAK games are technically copyrighted
>> 
>> I was thinking of including a disclaimer that says that 'the user of these backup ROM'S is doing so with the understanding that he/she already owns a purchased commercial copy of said ROM PAK
>> 
>> What do you think?
>> 
>> Sent from my BlackBerry
>> 
> In the eyes of the law, you are still distributing copyrighted material, no matter the intended recipient's usage.
> 
> If I wanted to provide this, I would create a Windows cmd script and a unix/MacOS version that essentially downloads all the roms from the various sites and concatenates them together.  That way, you've provided the way to organize the roms, without actually providing them.
> 
> There is no law against that.
> 
> Jim
> 



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