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ark_ader:
My mistake.  ;D
Vigo:

--- Quote from: saint on August 08, 2013, 07:50:23 am ---I'm forking off the morality/philosophy bits from the original point of this thread, the legality.

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I'm glad the OP's thread could be saved from this.  :applaud:
Well Fed Games:
I'm of two minds about all this; I feel like I wasted a ton of time trawling through these threads, but it has reminded me to go read Haze's blog (http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/) which is always time well spent. MAME unearths games that would otherwise be lost and forgotten, and I am grateful for the MAME Developers' work.
Vigo:
I don't know why people let legality dictate their morality. Things should be the other way around. The funny thing is that arcade PCBs were only designed to make money from commercial operators with the intent that they didn't care what the individual paid or didn't pay to play the game. Saving arcade games is a good thing, and distributing them is the best way to ensure they are preserved many years from now. This stuff should be a no-brainer.

I personally think Haze's stance can be awkward and hypocritical, but I have to think he says what he says because he is trying to protect Mame. I respect that, so I tend to leave him and his point of view alone. The minute you have mamedevs going around openly promoting piracy, you can be sure someone powerful enough to do cause legal problems would take notice.
rpgposer:
I like what Vigo just said.  With that, I will speak only for myself:  I am bit schizophrenic with the morality issue.  What I do with my time with my stuff is MY business, but I would never put myself or anyone else in jeopardy by selling or giving away a cabinet with mame/roms or illegal copies of PC games installed on it.
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