To those noob enough to click on the link. Yes, this is a virus.
More like "booming" as "exploding", I suppose?
Nice. I may be at long last able to play some of the games that crashes when trying to trigger a Gog Galaxy achievement. 😆
Happy cake day. Maybe she explicitly asked not to be named.
Here in France we call them Pilgrim Sharks (Requin Pèlerin).
I remember that one of them was spotted around where I lived, near Lorient, France, it was all over the local news 😆.
Oh, my bad 😂
I meant that I was hesitant.
As you can see, English is not my main language.
First, please take into consideration that lemmy.world website and organisation is bound to EU laws (as stated in the TOS). As such, in the current case the EU copyright laws, that are as previously stated, far more restrictive than the US ones.
As you stated, the objective of ROM patches is to modify copyrighted material. One of the right protected by copyright in the EU is the right to modify a software.
By default, if no licence is given, software is considered as being under the most restrictive licence available (even if the source code is freely available), which means, in this case, an "all rights reserved" licence, which prohibit software modification.
In the EU, third party patches are considered as derivative works, and requires an explicit authorisation from the copyright holder to be published and used on copyrighted material. Some exceptions exists, as previously stated, but applying them here would be quite far fetched.
For now, and while I keep researching on the application of EU copyright laws to try to find a flaw that would allow me to authorize those links, I'll have to keep those links removed.
The comments would be restored if the link are removed by the comment authors.
Thank you for taking the time to share your expertise.
In the EU, things are a bit different. US Fair Use is quite open ended, with a lot of room for interpretation. In the case of EU copyright laws, the list of exclusions is explicitly listed in Information Society Directive Article 5.
In my opinion this could fall into either art. 5.3(d), art. 5.3(i), or art. 5.3(k), but I'm no copyright law specialist. I do have one among my friends, but she kinda got a child last week, I'm not gonna bother her for that 😅.
You got a good point here. I'll take that into consideration.
Feels like a country sized wack-a-mole. Hilarious.