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Some arcade legality questions
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paigeoliver:
You can run an original board in any cabinet you want. The only possible worries are the fact that some of the stuff was only licensed for certain parts of the world. That, and if you have a prototype board as a lot of those essentially end up being stolen property if you trace their ownership back far enough.

Namco seems to be the last remaining company that made any effort to curb bootlegs of their old software and even they have stopped now, only seemingly worrying about the likeness of Pac-Man (etc) and not the software.

Finally, it doesn't matter what you put on location, it won't make any money.
pbj:
Stop repeating that Namco myth.  Namco has never done ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- to stop anyone.  It was one guy in Austin sending angry e-mails that got everything shut down on E-bay 10+ years ago. 

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: pbj on February 05, 2014, 05:07:11 pm ---Stop repeating that Namco myth.  Namco has never done ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- to stop anyone.  It was one guy in Austin sending angry e-mails that got everything shut down on E-bay 10+ years ago.

--- End quote ---

And don't forget Mr Foley did the same too.
clok:
I think its all just back to purchasing. In the arcade days there was no thought put into anybody but Arcade owners having these. As far as I know they want you to pay for the BOARD. Nowdays they are used, on ebay etc.. but when it was new, you bought a KIT (conversion) or the machine, they wanted  you to buy it from a LEGIT source..  Once you did that.. it was yours to do with (not copy, not modify) as you will.. put it in any machine, charge whatever you wanted etc.. And as somebody brought up, if it was licensed for US, not another country.

Today.. if you are using a REAL board.. i don't think anybody cares.. In fact if you run a PC and have Pac-Man going and charge quarters.. as long as you own the board i don't think anybody cares.. (except MAME dev's?, i do not think they wanted mame used to make money? thats such a gray area right now, im not sure).

it was all done originally so you bought legit hardware from legit sources and used in licensed areas. Once Cab is as good as another.. There was NO EMULATION so there were no rules on it. To me with EMU, it should not change as long as you own a working copy of the original.
pbj:
The problem with emulation is laws were broken in order to achieve that emulation.  Anyone that tells you otherwise is misinformed or lives in some weird country that nobody cares about.

 :cheers:

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