C64x promotes piracy.

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********** claim that the files are not hosted on their servers. But if you hover over the link it shows that they has set-up an account under their name on  some file host thing.

Not that I am bothered because I use it all the time to download games off. Usually games that I own the tape for but it no longer works..... As unreliable as tape medium is.

Lemon64 do have a few games that they actually have permission to distribute on their site. It's only a handful though. But they do not host anything else on their site.

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And that's the dilemma I have for my VIC-20 site being worked on. It's all well and good making the 1000s of videos of every game etc but without any file links to the actual images a bit of a waste of time.

(not gamebase front end related)

Its is a dark, grey and often murky area that we travel when it comes to images of anything. Often it's hard trying to work out what's freeware, abandon ware and still in copy right. I try to only grab images of stuff I own for when I am making video's. Also if I tend to play c64 and Amiga games as images these days because I don't want to potentially ruin the tape or disk.

As for the original post on this thread.

Piracy has been around for decades. Hell we had a few c64 tapes that were copies. I don't think that the C64X is promoting piracy any more than I promote healthy living.