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Discussion about isos/backing up games will get you banned and your thread deleted.

  • 03-10-2005 08:12AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭


    So don't do it.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Not ever done it, nor have any reason to BUT I always thought that you could make a copy suff for your own use. Seeing as you have bought the right to use the intellectual property


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,835 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    They changed the law on that and you can't anymore. Anyway most people who talk about back ups here are talking about games they pirated.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭jimi_t


    Retr0gamer wrote:
    They changed the law on that and you can't anymore. Anyway most people who talk about back ups here are talking about games they pirated.

    What law was recently changed as a matter of interest? It was always my understanding that even posessing CD-Rs and a burner were a legal grey area under archaic Irish laws - or that ripping CDs to put on an iPod was technically illegal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Sorry Amp for actually starting a discussion on the topic but it is an interesting one


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,835 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    jimi_t wrote:
    What law was recently changed as a matter of interest? It was always my understanding that even posessing CD-Rs and a burner were a legal grey area under archaic Irish laws - or that ripping CDs to put on an iPod was technically illegal.

    It wasn't recently changed, it happened over 5 years ago. I couldn't direct you to any info about because I'd be so bored looking at legal stuff my eyes would bleed. Without starting a conspiracy theory I think it was more down to corporate pressure than archaic irish law that changed it. Backing up your own copyrighted material or riping CDs to an Ipod is a grey area of the law verging on very much illegal but not enforced because of how ridiculous it is.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    Not ever done it, nor have any reason to BUT I always thought that you could make a copy suff for your own use. Seeing as you have bought the right to use the intellectual property

    Your rights, such as they are, do not apply on boards.

    Discussion about isos/backing up games will get you banned and your thread deleted.


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