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| Gen 2137th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Emulation -> a bite in the mean site"
, posted Mon 3 Nov 16:07:
Gamepro! ~ MTV! ~ Limp Bizkit
(No offense to Toxico. That's directed toward Gamepro and MTV.)
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"Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access."
If you can access them through say M.A.M.E. then, which isn't the original media or hardware, then the roms are therefore not exempt. Even before that, obviously non-P.C. programs can be accessed by unoriginal media and hardware in order for them to have gotten on a P.C..
Roms distributed by "rom" format via internet, aren't in an obsolete distribution format given how current and rampant it is, and that are accessible on multiple non-original different emulators are not exempt. So once a property is distributed in this way, that distribution isn't copyright exempt.
But seriously, you have to look at this statement
"the classes of works subject to the exemption from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works"
Which sounds like it means you can dump a copy but not that it's copyright disappears. So perhaps someone will care to write a summary but it sounds like you could play with the electronics but not distribute roms on the net. Edit: ah yes, the BBS page on neo-geo.com that rugal linked to has a sumary "This exception was meant to make sure that libraries don't break the law by transfering documents they need to archive."
In the subject of just copyright, personally I feel that any copyright holder should be allowed to do whatever they want with their copyright for the duration of the copyright without having outside parties unfairly profit or even unfairly use their products without money involved. If I make a copyrighted painting and I want to sell 100 copies this year, and then sell no copies until 30 years later at which time I'd sell 1000000 copies, I should be allowed to do that without having people reproduce and distribute copies of my painting without my permission.
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"Emulation -> a bite in the mean site" 
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