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DeathDude, on Oct 23 2006, 08:47 PM, said:

Some people in the industry say that for console roms, that the copyright lasts 75 years before they would be considered legal.

I hate to break it to you, but every game that isn't opensource (or free software), is in fact copyrighted for 75 years. that includes every singel game we have on Abandonia. for the companies that went defunct and weren't bought out there isn't any person to claim copyright (or press charges) but it still technicaly exists.
Now I'm not a big fan of AE (or EA ), but I feel that if Kosta decided to go through with it we could get a few older ROMs to host from ESA (like those games we had of A... uh... AN?[ AO? or ist it just A?]).
my bet goes (and allways has) with the frewware software (more precisely the part which was created free/open), which is why I'm more often here, than on AO.

[Nace]

And what is AO?

[Doubler]

Abandonia, I guess?

[DeathDude]

I don't think even with roms you'd be able to get much luck with the ESA from the stories I have read around, the companies like Nintendo, Sega are very strongly protective of their console properties just as greatly as some companies are on the pc side of the market, and again with the wii and the virtual console idea, pretty sure now the ESA will start looking more and more at the rom sites that are out there, and until it launches hard to say what will happen, but somehow don't think that now with that avenue open and the possibility of more consoles going onboard, that the argument of not being able to find so and so rom will work as much as before.

Not to say that there won't still be sites around, but think many will start to be more selective with what they decide to put on their site, least the ones that want to stick around and avoid trouble.