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Originally Posted by Dist
If you own a physical copy of a game, is it illegal to download it off net ? I've been told that for example, downloading roms of DS games and such would be legal if you owned those games but wanted to play them on emulator on PC, but does that apply for console and PC games too ?
I'd download them anyway but the reason I ask is because I got banned on a certain forum for '' warez '' when I said on the thread that I dl'ed the game to test it out while my copy of the game is on the mail .. Which it is, it hasn't arrived yet but I've certainly bought it.
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Depends per country but overall I don't think it is allowed.
In my country it is allowed to make back ups from your cd's etc. if you own them, same goes for software if you already own it.
But companies do not allow it overall.
Nintendo's view on it:
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom