Do You Own Your Games? - Retrogaming Responsibly - Extra Credits (Patreon)

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2020-03-03 17:31:29

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2021-01

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ROMs offer a lot of opportunities to save games that would otherwise be abandoned, lost to time and too difficult or expensive to uncover. But there's one BIG question that hangs over this kind of archival work. Are ROMs legal? Nick did such a good job with the art here. Never gonna feel comfortable about Mario ever again.

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Do You Own Your Games? - Retrogaming Responsibly - Extra Credits

It's happened to all of us at least once. A game that we might have loved suddenly disappears (or is patched out). There's no way to access it or find it... except through roms. That's okay. You bought it once right? That means it's yours! Weeellll... The legal grounds of ownership can get trickier than you might expect, especially as more and more of our media becomes digital exclusive. Luckily we have lawyer Ryan Meyer here to explain what an archival copy really means. Subscribe to Extra Credits for more episodes every Wednesday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Get info about all our shows at https://extracredits.site ___________ Get your Extra Credits gear at the store! https://extracredits.store Thanks for participating in this week's discussion! We want you to be aware of our community posting guidelines so that we can have high-quality conversations: https://extracredits.site/extra-credits-community-code-of-conduct Contribute community subtitles to Extra Credits: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UCCODtTcd5M1JavPCOr_Uydg&tab=2 Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Watch us play games and have fun on http://bit.ly/ECtwitch Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/ECisonInstagram Follow us on Tumblr: http://bit.ly/EConTumblr ___________ ♪ Intro Music: "Penguin Cap" by CarboHydroM http://bit.ly/1eIHTDS Music: "Sword of Sand" by: Hylian Lemon https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03186