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Creaphis said:
(The player still has to break the law by downloaded a Doom 64 .rom somewhere else, but that's not Kaiser's problem.)

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And didn't Doom64 Absolution get "approved" by the makers of Doom64?

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Viewtiful-Chris said:
And I wonder if id Software will ever be awesome enough to release all the DOOM engine games as freeware

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phi108 said:
But yeah, ID makes big bucks from IWAD sales from their store, Steam, Iphone version, Xbox Arcade version, etc. Maybe in 10 years they'll make it freeware...

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Creaphis said:
(The player still has to break the law by downloaded a Doom 64 .rom somewhere else, but that's not Kaiser's problem.)

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Viewtiful-Chris said:
And I wonder if id Software will ever be awesome enough to release all the DOOM engine games as freeware, though that's kinda off-topic. I mean, look at Bethesda. They liberated Elder Scrolls 1 & 2 and all the better for them.

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Viewtiful-Chris said:
DOOM 64: The Absolution TC (fairly popular work around here) has been quoted by the author as "for those who don't have Nintendo 64 systems". Isn't that blatant theft?

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Viewtiful-Chris said:
Well holy shit wouldn't it then technically be freeware?

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Splatter said:
How much paint do you have to huff to think it's any kind of theft?

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Gez said:
You know what, I think countries should maintain a national library for software, like they do for books. If you want for your copyright to be valid in that country, you'd have to give a copy of the source code to that institution. Which would do nothing with it, just sit on it until the copyright expires and then make it accessible to the public.

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Gez said:
You know what, I think countries should maintain a national library for software, like they do for books. If you want for your copyright to be valid in that country, you'd have to give a copy of the source code to that institution. Which would do nothing with it, just sit on it until the copyright expires and then make it accessible to the public.

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Creaphis said:


That's a really good idea.

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Kaiser said:
There's plenty of ways to obtain a rom legally. You can either purchase the rom from a trusted source (if such a thing exist) OR use a utility (such as Doctor V64) to extract a rom from a cartridge which was what Aaron Seeler once explained to me eons ago.

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Quasar said:
Personally I think that copyright is an outdated notion that is now only used to perpetuate corporate monopolies and trusts and should thus be abolished, or, at the least, returned to the state in which the founders left it :)

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kristus said:
Actually, we got a "one issue party" in Sweden that suggested if not the same thing, at least something similar for Sweden a few years ago. They're actually called the "Pirate party".

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Viewtiful-Chris said:
Where's the line drawn here?

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Quasar said:
Personally I think that copyright is an outdated notion that is now only used to perpetuate corporate monopolies and trusts and should thus be abolished, or, at the least, returned to the state in which the founders left it :)

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