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Time to knock on his door
shateredsoul:
Lets just all have white Russians and forget about all this
Ginsu Victim:
releasedtruth:
We are a tempermental bunch and I like it. It all comes back to the dude and how that ROM rug really tied the room together. I'm not a fan of him making a buck on the backs of people offering free product. Everyone sources material in different ways, but I've been sold copies masquerading as legit copies of software before and that definitely pisses me off...
The whites, Dude.
Haze:
re: selling / giving away
it annoys developers and manufacturers to see such things being sold because of the following simple fact
somebody else is making money out of your hard work in a way which requires no real effort on their part.
be it to the MAME developers or the copyright holders this simple fact makes a big difference, it goes from a few people having a good time (a hobbyist project and community centered around old systems) to a commercial venture and brings a lot of negative attention to emulation in general. Note that even when the manufacturers have made the games available for distribution on the MAME site they've specified it to be for non-commercial use only for the very same reasons.
Trying to pass somebody else's work off as your own, and making a profit out of it is an arsey thing to do.
Frigo:
--- Quote from: Haze on August 27, 2010, 01:49:31 pm ---re: selling / giving away
it annoys developers and manufacturers to see such things being sold because of the following simple fact
somebody else is making money out of your hard work in a way which requires no real effort on their part.
be it to the MAME developers or the copyright holders this simple fact makes a big difference, it goes from a few people having a good time (a hobbyist project and community centered around old systems) to a commercial venture and brings a lot of negative attention to emulation in general. Note that even when the manufacturers have made the games available for distribution on the MAME site they've specified it to be for non-commercial use only for the very same reasons.
Trying to pass somebody else's work off as your own, and making a profit out of it is an arsey thing to do.
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