Re: ROM image web page needed...
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Re: ROM image web page needed...
Isn't TI's policy that it is illegal to distribute ROM's on the net? Is
that hard to understand?
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Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Ray Kremer wrote:
> Before ml.org shut down, tiroms.ml.org was left with a nearly blank page
> that said TI made them shut down, and please contribute to this petition
> to TI to let us put the ROM page back up. About the same time, 86 Central
> shut down its ROM section due to pressure from TI, even though the webmaster
> there had found a way to ensure the person downloading had an 86. (His
> current e-mail is matt@acz.org, maybe he still has a copy of the letter TI
> sent him.) I conclude from this that TI just went on a massive sweep of ROM
> pages all at once. (I never really paid attention to them before that, so I
> don't even know how many there were.) You could try Paul King at TI, he
> might give you a copy of their policy. What IS your term paper about, the
> trading of illegal material on the net and how companies make them stop?
>
> >Was there any official documentation on the subject? A magazine or a web
> >page that they said that they were going to shut down all TI-ROM image
> >public domain web sites? I've already got some console ROM image web
> >sites, but the real controversy seems to be here more. I think Nintendo
> >and other companies gave up a long time ago trying to get rid of the other
> >web sites. I need some fresh material to work with and TI-ROM image web
> >pages are it (or some related material since all of the web pages are
> >gone...thanks TI, you are a **BIG** help with my term paper <sarcasm>). (I
> >did find one page, but TI can't take it down).
>
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