I was looking around for ROMs this morning and found several titles "ESA protected". What is this garbage?
I understand the ESA is the entertainment software association or something, but this "protection" only covers mainline series such as "Mario", "Zelda" and "Castlevania".
Is it any less 'illegal' to download ROMs from nintendo/konami developed games, rather than ones from GameTek? Not that anyone was ever prosecuted from downloading ROMs, though.
I would assume that ROM sites "protect" these ROMs from being hosted on their server as an agreement with the ESA so that the ESA won't come after them to have the site shut down.
Anyone else familiar with this?