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MAME is a great emulator. The big issue is of course locating and installing grey-area ROMS from potentially shady sites and torrents. Isn't it time the rights holders like Namco, Williams, Nintendo and Sony just quit living in the past and gave up on trying to restrict distribution of old games that are arguably a part of modern heritage. It seems petty and anachronistic to do anything other than just let go and give these ROMS their deserved freedom in the public domain.



Isn't it time for copyright to be abolished? Or at least fixed so that these companies no longer have functionally eternal monopolies? It's insane that stuff created 40+ years ago is still covered. They've already made their fortunes several times over, it's time to let go.


It's actually easier than ever nowadays. Do a quick search on archive.org and you'd be surprised on what you can find.


Yeah, it's really trivial to find full and complete sets of games for any system now.




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