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It's not legal... whether or not it's ethical is up to you though. I'm sure a 50%+ people here used MAME or these boards. The original authors of most of these games aren't getting much in the way of royalties anymore, and sales an old original cab/board doesn't earn them anything either. IMO you aren't affecting anyone's livelihood by using these.
Quoted from tamoore:Under the current laws of the US, this is 100% incorrect.
What part isn't correct? My first words were that it isn't legal.
Quoted from frolic:Say you own some blu-ray movies, and you left them out in the sun on a hot day and they won't play any more. The discs you owned, those discs, are junk. Sony has nothing in their terms that says you can then go download the same movies from a torrent site.
All of this is moot of course, no one is going to do much about any of this.
You can legally make a backup of a DVD/Blu-Ray, exactly for the reason you described. A ROM is the equivalent of that backup.
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