> > What legitimate function does Mame provide without the use of illegal roms?
>
> MAME plays ROMs, weather your copy is legal or not is besides the point; its not
> MAMEs job to determine what is legal and what is not. DVD players play movies,
> weather your copy is legal or not is besides the point; its not the players job
> to make sure your copy is legit. But what it comes down to in a legal sence is
> that there are "substantial non-infringing uses", and thats all you need by law.
>
> Just because there is not a large base of established, legal ROM distribution
> does not mean that the usege of emulators is illegal.


Actually, under the DMCA, it probably is.

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