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Megatouch announces closure!
ed12:
no mike
it is game on....rowe dose not use a key >pre-say<
they are totaly ethernet bound,much like it's-gamming golden t live 2013/2014/2015
u must have the pid card module and a active account with them
to get live feed's/up-date's etc,plus if your account is not active for 28day's
the pid is black-listed....
glad your still around.
ed
lilshawn:
I have recieved a bit of a disconcerting message back from Megatouch LLC this morning.
--- Quote ---Mr. -lilshawn-,
Thank you for inquiring about Megatouch’s future plans regarding its hardware and software products.
While Megatouch plans to phase out its coin operated machinery manufacturing operations as announced on January 9, 2014, it will continue to support certain coin machinery in the near future. Megatouch will also continue to manufacture, modify and create new releases and versions of Megatouch’s software products for use in various applications. As a consequence, the Megatouch software is and will continue to be actively supported by Megatouch and Megatouch’s announcement of its plans should not be construed as a release or waiver of its intellectual property rights in its software and hardware.
As you know, all uses of the Megatouch software are subject to its license conditions set forth in the end user Terms and Conditions. You are welcome to view the Megatouch end user agreement at legacy.megatouch.com/support/manuals/manuals.php under “Terms and Conditions” of the product through which you obtained our software. Under the license, users agree to utilize the Megatouch software subject to certain limitations including not creating derivatives, not reverse-engineering, not decompiling and not re-publishing Megatouch software. In addition, the user recognizes Megatouch’s existing intellectual property rights in its software and hardware, including but not limited to copyrights, patent rights and trade secrets.
Megatouch therefore views any attempts by users to modify the Megatouch software to be both a material breach of the terms of its user license as well as an infringement of its intellectual property rights. Accordingly, in the event that Megatouch concludes that its proprietary software is being hacked, patched , modified or distributed without its prior written permission, Megatouch will not hesitate to take any and all actions that it deems necessary in order to fully enforce its legal rights.
--- End quote ---
It sounds like the coin-op portion is being phased out totally, but it also it sounds as if there may be still some plans for the software in the future (goofy tablet thing they have going on or some other home based unit) and they'd like to keep their options open to use it someplace else.
ed12:
yes shawn
there is 2 different camp's now
1 say's we no longer support it ?
the other say's ami is going forward with some sort of support ?
so for now I am going to error on the side of safe...
ed
lilshawn:
yeah it seems kinda like that.
1 hand says: dropping support, get everything you can, 'cause once it's gone, that's it.
the other hand says: oh yeah, we are still going to support it.
it could be a copy paste response. I didn't really expect them to come right out and say yep, we are abandoning it, give 'er bullets. but i think now we are left with more questions than before.
I think because currently you CAN still get hardware and software, this is their stance. once the supplies dry up and you CAN'T get anymore hardware, it may change.
mahkeymike:
Of course there going to tell you that. No company wants there intellectual property tampered with regardless if they plan to abandon it, or support it 10 year later. The bottom line is they still own it.
This is just a small bump in the road. They did such a ---smurfy--- job on security with Ion its not even funny. They didnt even bother to obfuscate the main binary so that bit about reversing or decompiling is a joke. Most of the hardware protections are done through scripts that are "human readable" so theres nothing to reverse or decompile. Also, they use linux which is open source so editing a few linux scripts to my knowlege is not a breach of there license terms.
Bottom line, as long as you dont touch their software that is installed on the linux OS you should be ok.
Would they try to go after you for doing so? I dont know, most likely yes. Would they lose? I suppose that depends on how good your lawyer is at proving you didnt touch the "code" they own.
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