Will I be pirate if I download and play to test a Wii game with Emulator and then delete this ROM after 72 hours after download ? Or - how to test a wii game before buying it ?
I'm fairly sure from my view on this, that it would be illegal in most countries, as you are not the legal owner of the content to begin with. If you owned the game, it would be OK. It does sound morally right to delete it and then buy it if you like it, but at the same time it's not legal. There...
The only method I think of is to download a ROM and test it with an emulator, and then delete it 72 hours after I download it. However, I'm uncertain if this is legal.
How can I test a Wii game before buying it?
I am not sure if this is a bug in the game, but i ve reinstalled the game completely many times, when ever i play a conquer the world campaign after a certain time the map becomes filled with the sea and water. Though the game is still working i am not able to play because of the terrain. I ve tr...
> The backup/archival copy exception is a very narrow limitation relating to a copy being made by the rightful owner of an authentic game to ensure he or she has one in the event of damage or destruction of the authentic.
(That is to say, while it may be legal for you to make a copy, circumventing the copy protection required for you to make a copy is illegal. So... catch 22.)
@SimonSheehan That's specific to music, and is part of a settlement between the gov't and the recording industry - the industry gets a flat payout from surcharges on rewritable media, in return for a promise that they won't prosecute essentially.
@SimonSheehan The RIAA would love that. Which is likely why the MPAA "learned" from that mistake and did what @LessPopMoreFizz noted: By adding even rudimentary copy protection into DVDs, it's illegal to rip a DVD.
@Powerlord Eh, you've got the chicken and egg backwards there. Region coding on DVD's predates the DMCA and the surge of piracy in general by several years. The MPAA is just lucky that they also happen to be paranoid about arbitrage and like to artificially mangle prices in foreign markets.
> In any case, technological measures that prevent acts that are exempted under copyright law are protected. Therefore, one is, for instance, not allowed to circumvent a measure that hinders private copying, even though private copying is explicitly exempted under the Dutch Copyright Act.
> The protection of technological measures is limited by the fact that only technological measures applied to copyright protected material are covered. Consequently, technologies preventing acts as regards non-copyrightable material, for instance, material in regard of which the copyright has expired, may lawfully be circumvented.
@arda that sounds like a pretty strong anti-circumvention law without an exception for private copying... just sayin'.
@LessPop_MoreFizz This has been disproven repeatedly. See BREIN v. zoekmp3.nl and FTD v. Eyeworks.
> De Nederlandse regering heeft bij het aanpassen van de Nederlandse Auteurswet aan de Europese richtlijnen "uitdrukkelijk en herhaaldelijk verklaard dat het downloaden uit illegale bron voor privégebruik niet verboden is".
> The Dutch government has, while updating the Dutch copyright laws to European guidelines, repeatedly stated that downloading from illegal sources for private use is not forbidden.
@ArdaXi The Netherland regions have big hats en passant with the Netherland Author Sweats, and the European Rich Linen... and then I kinda stopped because your language has too many Js and Ks...
Not as I'm reading the legislation right now. If you need to circumvent encryption to do so, you run afoul of your equivalent to the DMCA. If you can get a hold of that copy by other means without circumvention, go nuts.
> According to the Dutch Copyright Act of 1912 everyone has the right to make a copy of a copyrighted work for his or hers private study or use. That same law states that the rightsholders should be fairly compensated for this private copying.
@ArdaXi Yes. But you don't have the right to circumvent encryption. Two seperate rights. You have one, not the other, same as us. Whether your lack of the latter is ever enforced is another matter entirely.
But as a WIPO signatory, you absolutely do have anti-circumvention laws, and more to the point, on reading the legislation, I see no fair use exemption whatsoever.
You've got the same catch-22 as us. The difference is that your governments permissive attitutde towards file sharing gives you something of a back-door around it.
Remember, US law holds that we have the same exact right.
We're unable to excercise it by doing other things which are illegal though. Such as cracking copy-protection.
What really bugs me in the US is that the registrar of copyrights can introduce temporary DMCA exeptions. My problem isn't with the exemptions themselves, but the temporary part.
For instance, it's currently perfectly legal to jailbreak a phone.
But that has to be renewed every... 3 years is it?
> provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors in connection with the exercise of their rights under this Treaty or the Berne Convention and that restrict acts, in respect of their works, which are not authorized by the authors concerned or permitted by law."
> "...provide adequate and effective legal remedies against any person knowingly performing any of the following acts knowing, or with respect to civil remedies having reasonable grounds to know, that it will induce, enable, facilitate or conceal an infringement of any right covered by this Treaty or the Berne Convention: (i) to remove or alter any electronic rights management information without authority;
> (ii) to distribute, import for distribution, broadcast or communicate to the public, without authority, works or copies of works knowing that electronic rights management information has been removed or altered without authority."
@ArdaXi It's a technological measure used by the author in connection with the excercise of their rights. Remember, you don't own the software, you've liscensed it.
I'm trying to get the red "L" potion on the far right of the screen, and failing. How can I get it?
For those who haven't played this game, the mud makes you slide — whatever direction you start moving in, you continue in until you hit a rock/water/grass/etc. To get the potion I would ...
I don't mean it's actually a drama, but rather that it's not written like most sitcoms are... They set up jokes that don't pay off until several episodes later.
I'm trying to get the red "L" potion on the far right of the screen, and failing. How can I get it?
For those who haven't played this game, the mud makes you slide — whatever direction you start moving in, you continue in until you hit a rock/water/grass/etc. To get the potion I would ...
