How can you obtain licensed software free of charge?

Licensed Software

Obtaining cracks, serials, and keygens for programs without paying for them is illegal and can get you into a lot of legal trouble. It's always best to pay for the software you want or to search for free software that is legal. If you have legally purchased the program, you may want to contact the vendor's customer service or technical support for assistance.

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Downloading Roms

It is against this site's Terms of Use for any WikiAnswers user to provide or link to sites that host roms. Most roms are copyrighted, and cannot legally be downloaded. Even if the game is old and not sold anymore, the company still owns the rights to it, and can choose to release it again in another format like the Wii Virtual Console.

Torrents

Find a torrent file on the internet (try searching legal sites like youtorrent.com). Then open the torrent file with client software (try uTorrent, Vuze or BitTorrent).

A good way to find a legal torrent is to use a meta search engine that only searches legal torrents (try YouTorrent.com).

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