[Coco] Copyrighted ROMs

[rietveld rietveld]

I have to admit that I was both hurt and shocked to read the first response to my posted question

I was simply inviting opinions on the best way to distribute the software I wrote for the cocoflash. I made creating a ‎fully programmed multi ROM PAK as easy as mounting the data disks and pressing (enter) on the keyboard.
The end result is a 100 in 1 rompak that replicates all 100 rom paks on a single easy to use unit

The initial response, as well as the subsequent one, lead me to believe that my contribution to this creation is both unwanted and unnecessary.

With that I will just walk away from this project so as not to offend those who seem bothered by it



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From: Lee
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:56 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Copyrighted ROMs


Wow, I don't think I've seen this level of "unfriendliness" in this list
before.  Out of all this entire thread, I've only see two
non-confrontational responses that were actually related to the OPs post.
One saying to provide links instead of the actual material, and one saying
the links might be troublesome as well (although that one through an
"irritating" jab in as well).  I'm normally a passive reader of this list,
but this thread has just rubbed me enough the wrong way that I had to
reply.  Now that I've also contributed nothing to the OPs original post,
I'll go back to lurking. :)

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:41 PM Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <
bathory at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> On Wed, November 14, 2018 12:36 pm, RETRO Innovations wrote:
> > If I wanted to provide this, I would create a Windows cmd script and a
> > unix/MacOS version that essentially downloads all the roms from the
> > various sites and concatenates them together.  That way, you've provided
> > the way to organize the roms, without actually providing them.
> >
> > There is no law against that.
> >
> > Jim
>
>
> It's abetting copyright violation. It was covered by court decision way
> back
> in the early 1980s.
>
> Dennis
>
> PS: In other irritating matters, ROMs has no apostrophe.
>
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