Belmont
WiiChat Member
Wiinter said:Fair use got killed by the DMCA.
As for ripping CDs you own, well, stupid as it is, that's not legal either. They were pushing about a year ago to legalize it in the UK (since everyone does it anyway--with the best of intentions), but I don't know what became of that.
There was a recent Roms exception to the DMCA ruled on by some regulatory agency that made them legal to have in some cases, for archival purposes, but the very presence of a system like Wii that allows those games to be played nixes the archival exception (you can keep roms for archival purposes when the hardware necessary to play them is no longer reasonably available).
Thats what i thought thats why i stopped using roms when the wii came out because they could be purchased and played on a system that still works reliably. Now that the games can be sold to the masses and played easily then there is no reason to use a rom and no reason for it to be legal.
I guess to be fair you could say that games that are not available to download for the VC can still be emulated but once they come out it is illegal to use that rom.