One of the results of the availability of console emulators was the desire for roms to play on them. In most cases, a rom is simply a dump of a cartridge that is then loaded into the emulator. In most cases, this is blatant copyright theft, and as a result sites carrying them tended to be shut down. Requests for roms are common on newsgroups and message boards, and the term has now expanded to cover files for all emulators - an Amiga disk image is thus a "rom", as is a tape image from a spectrum. Also commonly corrupted to romz or r0mz (as in "Wh3r3 4r3 th3 r0mz, dud3z?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??")