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	Fargus	2010-01-04 , 14:11
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Originally Posted by zehjotkah

imagine you bought a car, lets say a porsche.
it is illegal to take the engine an put it into a fiat 500??
no it's not illegal, because you paid your porsche.
but it is illegal to take the porsche parts (roms) without paying, or building a car (emulator) with parts you've not paid..

It would depend on the articals of sale. You may not like it but there are places where this type or restriction is legal. I didn't say I thought it was sensible just that it happens.

Regardless of that this post doesn't work. If you write an emmulator there is a requirement to either reverse engineeroperating system or have privileged information. That is usually also copyrighted and often reverse engineering is strictly forbidden on the terms of use (it's software again)

Last edited by Fargus; 2010-01-04 at 14:14.

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