Homebrew a true utopian society?

[vettacossx]

by getting a lawyer...seriously...technically you are using copyrighted material. still, depending on your country you might be allowed to use original work to parody it without having to pay licence fees. thats why any so called legal-illegal discussion is so obsolete. only a lawyer knows for sure and even then i wouldn't bet on a definite answer, because as far as i know, there was never a trial regarding this, just to assure your legal status.

BUT the more important question you should ask is: do companies care? everyone who ever meddled with the anti-piracy taskforces of those corporations will tell you: no they don't. why? because you don't sell it and the number of users are far too low to affect anything. besides, if they did, they could also take legal actions against fanart as that is a ripoff of original artwork, too. in fact they have bigger cases to rest, such as corporate piracy

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so there's no reason to panicim not really paniced so much as confued??
so its illegal.....but i shouldnt be concerned? im agains UMD piracy all the way2.....and i 2 beleave that IF ITS STILL BEING SOLD then support it otherwise there wouldnt be sequals but i didnt think that make a lil mod " themed " of a cartoon or videogame charicter was ILLEGAL for cryin out loud!

[Xiaopang]

well, it could be illegal, could be legal (think of the parody-example i mentioned). no one will sue you because you did that. there are tons of mods out there for years now and guess how many guys had to stand trial for doing this: 0

not even the maker of the hot coffee mod for gta which got rockstar into trouble and some very bad press had anythig to fear. so don't worry, everythings cool.

[Basil Zero]

I'm really not worried about whether the homebrew scene would die or not, because even though one site may be forced to be down, there's always gonna be another one up anyways.

[NeoXCS]

DCEMU is the most dedicated scene to homebrew. I love to see a site that actually watches and cares about the scene it contains, making sure no illegal or controversal type software gets onto it. SP I've been watching you rant since way back around when PSP homebrew started and you still rant with the best of them! Let's just keep the scene as legit as possible so we may see inovations for a long time to come.

[pepegomez]

are there countrys wehre piracy is legal? i doubt so

[Kramer]

yeah im sure 3rd world countries arent too strict about piracy.
asian countries have piracy going on everywhere even though its illegal the police dont really care they have shops full off pirated dvds ps2 games everything.

[ferret45]

How do you think nintendo feel about people creating homebrew with mario and zelda featuring in them? that must be copyright infringement?
mabye dcemu should stop hosting them if they truly whant to keep legit

[shadow77]

The proof is out there, Sony discovered commercial software imbedded in a certain firmware emulation application and issued a cease and desist order to its respective developer.

BOOSTER was NOT given a cease and desist order.

The modules that are created when you run the firmware installer are extracted from the EBOOT.PBP, it is illegal to share these files. Some no-name person uploaded a copy of devhook to the site with those files included, thus - the site admin was given a cease and desist order.

but it was NOT because of devhook, and BOOSTER was not harmed. Devhook contains no illegal code.

[NoQuarter]

This is true

[Pico]

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so there's no reason to panicim not really paniced so much as confued??
so its illegal.....but i shouldnt be concerned? im agains UMD piracy all the way2.....and i 2 beleave that IF ITS STILL BEING SOLD then support it otherwise there wouldnt be sequals but i didnt think that make a lil mod " themed " of a cartoon or videogame charicter was ILLEGAL for cryin out loud!

Well you made a simpsons turrican mod thats why i used turrican as an example before, last year (or the one before) matt groening's legal people where threatening simsons fan site's with legal action because of the content (these case's was concerning sound files no bigger than 350k and sprite rips/animated screen caps).