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Offline hishamkTopic starter

archive.org TOSEC downloads
« on: January 26, 2017, 07:19:35 AM »
Archive.org apparently has a DMCA exception. Does that mean downloading ROMS/ADFs/ISOs from their TOSEC section legal?

They've pretty much got a lot covered, including CD32 ISOs:
http://ia801707.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/32/items/Amiga_CD32_TOSEC_2009_04_18/Amiga_CD32_TOSEC_2009-04-18.zip

This should spell a boon for legit retro gamers.
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Re: archive.org TOSEC downloads
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2017, 10:36:38 AM »
Looks like Cloanto are only ones to DMCA so far...

Quote from: removed_roms.txt
The following items in this archive have been removed at the request of Cloanto, Inc., who are the
current owners of these Amiga ROMs and Images:

Kickstarts, Workbenches, Personal Paint & a few other apps.

Anywayz downloading ATM 31.5GB... always looking for a way to fill another drive... only 5.26TB space left out of 20TB
« Last Edit: January 26, 2017, 04:15:01 PM by Amigadude »
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Re: archive.org TOSEC downloads
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2017, 04:17:47 PM »
And the download has failed 3 times for me so far...

My bad, I was looking at the size of the Amiga download... the CD32 one is 46.6GB getting them both by torrent now... hopefully it will be a lot more reliable than the direct downloads...
« Last Edit: January 26, 2017, 04:30:47 PM by Amigadude »
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Apple is like God.... I  don't mind either, it's just their fan clubs that put me off

In order use preference:
A1200, Z4 tower, Buffered IDE, DVDRW, PiStorm32 Lite, RPi3B+ &  WiFi
RPi400 running PiMiga4.0
A600GS
CD32, TF328 & 8GB CF
A mac mini running MorphOS
A1200,  TF1260 (NoFPU) & ne2000 networking
A500
A600
2xCD32
A1200 mobo (Dead, black screen)
 

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Re: archive.org TOSEC downloads
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2017, 07:54:42 AM »
seems to be a lot of duplicated data: games ADF, IPF, WHDLoad.
if possible there should be a utility that can convert IPF + patches into other two 'formats'.
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Offline psxphill

Re: archive.org TOSEC downloads
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2017, 07:54:23 PM »
Quote from: hishamk;820826
Archive.org apparently has a DMCA exception. Does that mean downloading ROMS/ADFs/ISOs from their TOSEC section legal?

The DMCA exception they have only covers circumventing copy protection on old software that they legally own. It doesn't give them permission to distribute the files.

When they receive DMCA take downs, they hide the files from the public.

Downloading from archive.org has the same legal status as downloading from anywhere else.
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