CDRomance is a ROM site whose main specialty is offering pre-patched romhacks, fan translations, undubs, etc. and it’s a great resource for such things for systems up to the PSP. I think they were deliberately trying to stick to retro systems to stay under the radar but predictably that didn’t prevent the copyright ghouls from coming for them eventually.
refuses to translate a game to english
takes the people to court who do
The european space agency must be stopped.
These “criminals” are the only people keeping these works of art and culture alive. Unlimited
for ip ghoulsYou should absolutely 100% lose copyright protections on a work if you aren’t making it available to the public. Also things should enter the public domain after 10 years (5?) but even ignoring that, the point of copyright is to allow you to make money on the exclusive sale of the thing you made. If you aren’t selling it, you don’t need copyright protections.
Businesses that are not equitably owned and operated coops should not be allowed to hold copyrights at all, nor should they be allowed to receive exclusive licenses or otherwise sneak around it by controlling a property without directly owning it. Copyright should further be tiered: a tier that never expires, which requires non-coop businesses to acquire proper licenses to use it; a 50+ year tier that requires coops to seek licensing; and some shorter tier that would require an individual artist or author to seek licensing for commercial use. Anything owned by a coop that dissolves or an artist who dies without transferring ownership should immediately enter the public domain, except the requirement for businesses to seek licensing should remain and be negotiated by, idk, some relevant industrial union or something and the proceeds to that should go towards grants funding independent creators or a healthcare fund or something.
Under a socialist system this should be further reformed, as needed for the context of however media is produced under the new system, to balance the need to protect a given artist’s ownership over their creations with the need to prevent them from holding something hostage that’s become the work of a great many other people involved in its production - so a novelist may own their own works and be able to refuse to see them adapted, but one writer out of several for a series can’t claim piecemeal ownership over it and try to sabotage its ongoing production over a falling out, for example.
Pretty sure the original laws in the US around copyright and such were 7 years with some ways to renew it.
Assuming my goal is to produce a functioning capitalist society (…) 7 years for like 95% of stuff to go public domain and only giving exemptions for very valid reasons sounds fair.
I can’t even think of valid reasons besides maybe like a movie is produced and released and immediately a group or org of some sort sues the producers so they pull the movie to avoid further legal stuff while fighting the suit. Say they win the suit in like 5 years. It would be fair to give them 7 years from that date instead. But beyond weird stuff… 7 years for artistic endeavors to enter public domain seems totally fair.
I think people also forget that just because something passes into public domain that doesn’t mean the original creator(s) can’t still make money off of it. Like if an album came out in 1990, went public domain in 1997 (we cannot conceive of such a world…), and you discover it in 2024 like you can still buy the fucking album if you choose to if you want to give them, their corporate people, their descendants, whatever, some sort of payment. It would just also be available for public, free consumption. And it would have had 7 total years where the only legal path to owning the license to listen to it or whatever was solely through purchasing it through whatever method the artists had setup. Very few things like movies keep selling much 7 years post-release anyway.
Basically all the scaremongering from media companies from music to games to whatever all crumbles instantly with even the lightest inspection. Piracy has never been much of a loss for them and they’re very aware of this fact. It doesn’t stop people like Lars from crying forever. I actually don’t even know what Lars is up to for the last 20 years but he can eat my ass forever for helping promote all this endless corporate whining about napster and then limewire, torrenting, direct downloads, etc. Fuck him.
And fuck the fanboys and useless idiots who boot-suck corporations like Nintendo who are insanely egregious in their enforcement. In my imagined-world prison is absolutely off the table in all IP circumstances. I don’t care if some dude was selling bootlegs and made $1B. It’s fair to take that money, ok, maybe some sort of reasonable fine, but not fucking prison. And that’s the worst case offenders, people selling pirated material for profit. The usual case is pirating for personal consumption and maybe seeding or sharing in some limited capacity. The fact that prison is on the table for any of these scenarios is batshit draconian levels of corporate fascism. And yet that is the law in the US and many US-influenced nations (which is a shitload obviously). Next time some assclown is saying China is authoritarian and they’re free in the US ask them how they feel about downloading torrents and the possibility of life-destroying fines and prison time for doing so. Unfortunately many Americans or westerners generally are so neolibbed up and brainwashed that they would impulsively, kneejerk defend imprisoning people for a “crime” that everyone on earth has committed even if by accident. Anywho says they never streamed any copyrighted material or torrented it or whatever is full of shit. You do it by accident all the time at a minimum.
But piracy bad for economy!1!!
Yeah prepatched roms will get the copyright goons up your ass just as much as unpatched roms
The site had plenty of other downloads besides just prepatched ROMs, I’m shocked it went this long before it got shut down considering there were Gamecube and PS2 downloads on the site.
Fuck this, though, it was a good source for those consoles
Like I said, the files are still accessible even if there’s an additional hoop you gotta jump through now. Also, you can apparently still download from emuparadise despite them getting the same treatment like 10 years ago. Let’s hope they weather the storm
Yeah I still have a userscript that puts the download links back on emuparadise
Also, fuck the translators who complain about CDR because it spreads pre-patched ROMs. They say either #1 somehow the pre-patched ROMs being available makes the translators more likely to get sued by the game companies, which I fucking doubt or #2 that users using older versions of the patched game are eating up their resources and time complaining about stuff fixed in future patches, which might happen but I can’t imagine it being that common for someone to look up a translation’s githunb/ROMhacking.net page but not note the version number at all and CDR is really good about keeping patches up-to-date.
that users using older versions of the patched game are eating up their resources and time complaining about stuff fixed in future patches
HAHA THAT WOULD BE REALLY STUPID LOL
I’ll be honest, I thought we all learned a decade ago that direct download links without an individual DMCA system is never sustainable.
Just host a bunch of torrents like a normal ROM site.
Perhaps both. Direct downloads for convenience and torrents for backup situations like this
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it is very funny that i learned about this because i was in the middle of re-downloading some games i lost during a disk accident last year. i could download a couple before the links fully dissapeared, making me wonder if i got banned or sumething
