[Coco] Copyrighted ROMs

[Lee]

Please don't walk away offended by the responses of a few.  Someone just
suggested uploading the disk image back to the archive where the roms
already are.  There is precedence for this in the fact that there's already
a pre-packaged image for the SDC there.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 1:54 PM rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry
>   Original Message
> From: Lee
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:56 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> 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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