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Making money from MAME
Santoro:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 28, 2004, 04:10:12 pm ---You already have all the roms, you would certainly give them all to your best friend if he wanted them, your customer is no different.
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Nope.
In your example above, the red text is true, blue text is false. I trust myself and friends, I don't know my customers from a hole in the wall. Is he a copyright lawyer? A Wlliams exec?
Selling ROMs or even appearing to sell ROMs is a much worse offense than posessing them for personal use.
All IMHO of course.
Edgedamage:
Is there anyone here who can say that every rom they have is dumped from their own original boards? Hmmmm
Edgedamage:
--- Quote from: Edgedamage on April 28, 2004, 05:02:29 pm ---Is there anyone here who can say that every rom they have is dumped from their own original boards? Hmmmm
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Nope can't say I own all the original boards. :(
Santoro:
--- Quote from: Edgedamage on April 28, 2004, 05:02:29 pm ---Is there anyone here who can say that every rom they have is dumped from their own original boards? Hmmmm
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I doubt it. Maybe a few hard-core folks.
I plan on buying all of the StarRoms-available ROMS that I play. I wish that they would strike deals with the other vendors, because I really want my cabinet to be 100% licensed. I only play 20 games regularly. If I could legally and reasonably own the software ROMs (I don't mean by buying boards for 15-70$) I would gladly pay for the right. Just as the music industry is missing out, I think that the arcade manufacturers are missing out on a small but steady revenue stream by not selling the old ROMs.
Rawker:
funny thing is most people who post that it's illegal probably have a coin door and keep the money after people play on their cabinets. :P