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| GGKoul:
Also if money is needed to start a MAME legal fund. |
| SNAAKE:
--- Quote from: GGKoul on March 07, 2005, 01:09:02 pm ---Just read DF's replies to Kevin Steele's (Retroblast) questions. --- End quote --- |
| APFelon:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on March 06, 2005, 10:32:15 pm --- I think the thing a lot of people are missing here is the very real chance that Foley will bring the original ROMS owners sniffing around, since he's screaming so loud about profit and that may put a real chill into developers. --- End quote --- I would be more willing to believe this scenario if there was a precident behind it. The emulation of copyrighted software is not very "underground" anymore like it was in the early days, and I'm sure every prominent (and not so prominent) software house is aware of emulation. I suppose a profit motive would incite some companies to act, but I think they look at the profitability of compilation CDs and figure the cost to profit ratio isn't significant enough to waste resources trying to obliterate ROM images from the Internet (which would be like trying to empty the ocean with a collander) or targeting emulation software developers (especially after the costly lesson Sony learned from the Bleem incident). Foley isn't the Pied Piper of Hamlin, he is a two-bit cabinet salesman whose fifteen minutes of fame started ticking away when he decided to irritate the emulation community. He isn't going to persuade ROM copyright holders to assail emulation developers unless he can turn a HARDY profit of corporate perportions. And like I said, the emualtion community thinks of him as a festering turd in the swimming pool and won't send him a dime for the iRoms project or anyone else. I think the chances of him turning any REAL profit is narrow. APf |
| daywane:
--- Quote from: SNAAKE on March 07, 2005, 02:09:55 pm --- --- Quote from: GGKoul on March 07, 2005, 01:09:02 pm ---Just read DF's replies to Kevin Steele's (Retroblast) questions. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- |
| Havok:
This won't be on ebay for long: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=378&item=4532152110&rd=1 Foleyhole owns the rights to mame - even if the application hasn't been approved, and he didn't create it. Oh, and don't forget - he owns the rights to an image he didn't create too! Down with all things mame! :P |
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