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    I am about to start using emuparidise on my andriod device, and I just wanted to make sure this doesn't count as illegally downloading something. I don't want to do anything that is not officially allowed. It would suck to like go to jail for downloading a rom lol. Sorry if the answer is somewhere obvious I'm new here.

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    Yeah, it's been answered many times, pretty recurrent subject. In some countries it's allowed to download backups of games you arleady own, in some others it's not. The probabilities of someone going to jail because they downloaded a ROM are slim, but if you are so scared about it, don't downlaod anything.

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    Is it allowed in America?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Da_local_dad View Post
    Is it allowed in America?
    no it's considered piracy but it's highly unlikely they'd go after a person for downloading a game or two. the only people interested in taking legal action are movie and music companies an even then it's usually for new releases.
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    Technically no. I wouldn't worry about it though. At all.

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    I've heard about a few small lawsuits here and there, but honestly most of the game companies aren't that worried about end-users; especially flashcart end-users who already bought the hardware. They're more interested in the programmers of the emulators and flashcart firmwares, and the manufacturers of the flash carts. However, as you stick to homebrew programming, it is technically legal - that's part of the ruling Tengen got back in the day, claiming that Nintendo North America was acting against market interests, yadda-yadda. Now, ROM piracy and emulation is a slightly different scenario, but comparatively the fact is that they really don't care anymore.

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