I’ll take a look tomorrow. I’m UTC+2 (I just can’t sleep right now 😅), so I’m not yet in the required state of mind to go and check add of that.
Comment on ROMhacking.net shuts down after 20 years; database has been moved to the Internet Archive
catloaf@lemm.ee 3 months agoFrom what I see in the archive link I posted, it only contains patches, not playable games, neither original nor patched. You need a copy of the game already to make any use of it.
Dremor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Pixelguin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s correct. The entire archive is only about 12GB; it couldn’t possibly contain the full games.
Dremor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You don’t need to have the full game to be considered as piracy. Anything allowing to break a DRM could be considered as such.
hamid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Dremor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thank you for taking the time to share your expertise.
In the EU, things are a bit different. US Fair Use is quite open ended, with a lot of room for interpretation. The EU copyright laws, the list of exclusions is explicitly lister in Information Society Directive Article 5.
In my opinion this could fall into either art. 5.3(d), art. 5.3(i), or art. 5.3(k), but I’m no copyright law specialist. I do have one among my friends, but she kinda got a child last week, I’m not gonna bother her for that 😅.