YES! Thank you very much empyre! He hit the nail exactly on the head there which is what i was trying to explain!
I did not say at all "i go round stealing cars for educational purposes" so bad quote from you! I meant to mean that you can go on a rom site and have a look, thats not illegal. The reason why forums do not like links to roms is because they do not wish to be affiliated with downloading roms. I.E if you write download mame roms in google, and you get a link to a post in this forum... thats bad. However, i was suggesting for people to go and have a look, not directly go and download from there!
You can legally watch people stealing cars in a street, but if you participate then its wrong. HECK, you can watch videos of people like bank robbers and car chases on tv, and thats not illegal. So looking at rom sites is not either. Also take a look at this 
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
It might definately get someones attention on what is legal and what isnt!
If you have psx games, but do not have a burner handy, then you can of course get a rom of a game which you already have, so this is not illegal at all!!! Also, FTP is not illegal either. When i supposedly indirectly "told" people to get roms on emule, which i didnt btw. You can of course go on emule and have a look at what you can share, if you download its up to you to know if you already have the game in your possesion!
I think that in some form or another that a sticky should be made for legality of roms, especially since the gp2x is all about roms and copies of things. You can of course make a copy of a film onto avi, and roms i.e videogames are in exactly the same copyright laws as are music and movies. You cannot play a videogame in a massive public gathering without permision of the creator, same as a movie. It is illegal for you to get a gp2x and hook it up to a projector and play it on a big screen in your local college, you arent supposed to do that with games OR movies.
I hate it when people get the power surge and say "ban this idiot" because i mentioned roms or places where people usually go to download roms. Roms are legal, which is why the gp2x is still here!! When nintendo come out with the super retro backwards compatible revolution, they ARE going to crack down on their games, because the games are being put back into purchasing, back on the market. 
You can legally archive out of date software, such as mame for example. Not everyone wants to put their beloved pac man machine on all day when they are collecting it and preserving it. So mame is built specifically for the preservation of games.
People take advantage of this however, and download everything. Its up to them to do that, i am not suggesting in any way to download something that you do not have. HOWEVER you can legally share games/roms and download them, which is why there are so many active rom sites!!! providing that you have the game yourself and wish to keep it preserved!
I for one have collected a MASSIVE amount of games in my time and im almost getting all of every sega megadrive, mamster system and game gear game avaliable. So if i asked where to get sega roms, its my prirogative to go and download things i already have at home. So im safe and dry with that.
As for mame, i personally own metal slug 1 2 3 4 5 x, shock troopers 1 and 2 and sonic wings 2 original arcade versions, all for my supergun! However, i cannot play them on my gp2x, so i go download the rom, of something i already own!
I have in no way said to anyone to do anything illegal! So i dont appreciate that people call me idiot and ask to ban me. Im trying to point in the right direction here with a bit of joke, if people didnt understand and thought i was being sneaky i apologise. I certainly hope that people understand the legality of roms, and not be so anal about people mentioning roms...
Thanks empyre for understanding what i am saying 
 
For the guy who wants psx roms, i hope that you already own the games you are looking for roms for, and also it is legal to download them if you already own the game but do not have a burner, or have resources to do  that kind of thing, feel free to download them!
For this sFORUM, i discourage actual physical links to roms sites which offer other bad things which arent strictly legal. But contacting a burner for archival purposes, or going on ebay to buy a set of roms (the disc they are on, not the actual roms mind) as people should not profit from roms EVER. I discourage actual links to bad sites with warez (i.e cracks, keygens and things like that) but things like homebrew which you can get on emule and archival roms which you can get where i directed is up to you to know what you got to have a rom of. I discourage again talking bout bad sites with warez and roms because it would give this forum a bad name.
But i think emule ebay etc is ok 
