Comment by JCTheDenthog
7 hours ago
>citing that it's illegal even though I own the games
In the. US at least it is actually illegal to download ISOs/roms of games, even if you own a physical copy. It's a stupid law and as a downloader (as opposed to the people hosting the files) your chances of getting into any kind of actual legal trouble are effectively 0, but it is still against the law.
I don’t think so. I’d want more than just your word on it.
Thanks for pointing that out! I'm not in the US and I guess it's not illegal in China (given that Deepseek was more than happy to do it).
That does raise an interesting question, what kind of laws should LLMs (attempt to) follow? It's easy enough to spoof the country in the system prompt. I wonder how ChatGPT would respond if I told it I was located in a developing country without any piracy laws.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/why-most-roms-are-illegal,...
https://answers.justia.com/question/2025/08/04/is-downloadin...
https://www.howtogeek.com/262758/is-downloading-retro-video-...
etc. etc. etc. etc.