Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Bob S. wrote:

> I doubt if they would give their blessing to copy their ROMs....more 
> likely have their lawyer send you a letter.  The material in their ROMs 
> are still sold in other products and Rob Papen and others still receive 
> royalties...
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there's only one way to know...

as a practical matter, they can't stop it, but they can make themselves 
look foolish for trying. as an ideological matter, i have no objections 
about providing or receiving unauthorized copies (some would say 
"pirating") of content that's not commercially available for my hardware. 
if they still sold ROMs, then i would at least have ideological 
reservations. also, it was pointed out last time i was looking for the 
samples, that the sound samples are only a small part of what's on those 
ROMs, the rest being the settings, making them less useful without the 
right hardware.

last time i asked about getting authorized copies of the contents from 
these ROMs (that's CONTENT, not ROMs), they told me to check ebay because 
they no longer sell them.

if someone is entitled to royalties for sample libraries being currently 
sold (in a usable format), that's one thing... but being entitled to 
royalties for hardware that's been out of production for years... it's not 
my problem if they don't get paid, and i won't even feel bad about it. 
i'll be happy to take them to lunch if they visit, but i'd do that even if 
i bought their library through retail channels.


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