Huge internet emulation website ROMhacking changes to news only and releases entire 11GB of files onto Internet Archive for preservation

Just a moment...

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Seems like every quarter there’s news of ROM sites getting picked off. Why aren’t people rushing to change hosting to Russia or some other country that doesn’t care about wester IP laws
- I don't think this was an IP cease and desist issue, just a person who kept stepping on their own feet to refuse to create a plan for handing off the day to day to other people.
  
  Yeah, these aren’t ROMs, they’re just ROM hacks. I don’t think any copyright law can stop you from distributing these because they’re just slight changes to the original code - if they could, then any Action Replay/Gameshark/region bypass devices would’ve already been banned.
- The old kraken thing still applies though. They kill one site, others arise. It never works beyond making it slightly more annoying to find stuff.
This was likely a result of incompetence and boomer level stubborness/entitlement from the site owner. The fact that the article didn't even mention this response is bad journalism.
- ...what the hell were they doing that made S3 more cost-effective for that amount of storage?
  
  judging by the age of the site and temperament of the owner, probably just running a big (maybe even physical, colocated) server that could handle the peak load and letting it sit idle all other times.
Private torreng sites are the last holdout of old content. I just hope there are nerds around still willing to put the effort in to keep them going.
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romhacking.net looks the same to me, download links seem to work, has it been restored?
- The site itself is an archive. No new submissions or comments are allowed anymore.
  
  ah, I see; that's good news, at least
I also noticed z-library got taken down again when I tried yesterday, it was working juts a month ago
I hope the community pulls together to find a new centralised site/place for new hacks. There are a load of hacks being worked on currently and trying to keep up to date as things stand now isn't ideal
They did say they wouid post news.
I have the backup on our nas just in case the site eventually disappears.

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