(01-15-2015, 03:50 AM)Yoyoman Wrote: Do you know the average Pleasantvillle, NJ cop response time if I was doing something illegal?
If you were in the process of murdering somebody in the middle of the street at noon, I'm sure the response time would be measured in minutes at most, maybe seconds or dozens of seconds if there happened to be a patrol or something nearby.
If you illegally download a game, I doubt anything would happen. If you somehow for some reason got tracked down, then the worst that would probably happen would be that after a few weeks, perhaps a couple months, you'd be sued/fined.
If you rip a game from your console and use the file to play it on an emulator, nothing whatsoever could realistically happen, unless you store it in the cloud or something, simply because the file wouldn't be on the internet - and copyright agencies don't spy on everybody's PCs individually. That said, according to everything else which has been said in this thread, even if somehow a legal case ensued, you'd be very unlikely to be in any kind of trouble yourself.
If you plan on doing something else not covered here, and are using game ripping as an excuse to secretly gather information on your home town's police force in order to facilitate some illegal undertaking, then this isn't the right place to look.
>mfw I have no face