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| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Santoro on April 28, 2004, 04:55:49 pm --- --- 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. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- Agreed, I also caught the "setup as MAME", which could mean anything from - 1) I have run MAME on this and deleted it, and you just install your copy and it will work fine (No problem). 2) I installed MAME and all the screenshots, snapshots, samplefiles, and a frontend, now just put your romfiles in the ROMS folder and you're all set up (probably violation of the MAME license and maybe the frontend's license, but not much we could do about it.), or 3) I have MAME and a full set of ROMS included on the machine. (Major license violation, and probably enough to get E-bay to pull the auction). Then again, I've seen laptop ads on E-bay saying "This laptop comes with the following software available and if you tell me you own a licensed copy of the software, I will leave it installed. I don't need to see the license or a copy of your software, I'll take your word for it, and I'm not selling the software, only installing it as a courtesy and convenience to you", so I suppose he could try the same tactic. |
| GamingGreg:
If you want to give the user something, why not install one of the Atari, Nameco, or Capcom collections for the PC pre-installed? One that you've bought to give to them, of course. (I believe the license on those are transferable). Give them the CD and box to them when you give them the cabinet. This would avoid any MAME legality issues, and at least give them something to start with. |
| DarkSoul1:
Opinions seem to be somewhat divided. It's the fact that his entire wording in the sale is ambiguous in an effort to avoid any legal problems. I have thought of building and selling cabinets, but not installed with 2000+ games (or any games at all). To me it is just not in the spirit of what MAME is. It would be no different to me skulking around here and copying all the great artwork, sticking it on a cab and then selling it off without any recognition or permission of the artists. |
| bloodyviking77:
just by the by, the cab that the OP linked to looks a lot like the cabs that ozstick sells. |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: bloodyviking77 on April 29, 2004, 06:09:03 am ---just by the by, the cab that the OP linked to looks a lot like the cabs that ozstick sells. --- End quote --- Similar, but the "school desk" was a pretty common cocktail cab style. The pics look different enough that I don't think this is someone stealing OzStick's images or OzStick selling on E-bay under a different name. |
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