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So I saw an Ultracade machine at walmart....
Shape D.:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 08, 2005, 10:25:22 am ---They did.
They sent him a cease & desist letter. He never had permission to sell their games on his machines. They also made him remove any artwork etc. He sent out a letter (and posted it on his website) to his distributors to not sell any of the machines or use Namco or any of their games in their advertisements.
What foley was doing was including "busted boards" (the actual rom chips) with each machine. Namco had their lawyers make contact... ;)
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--- Quote from: RayB on March 07, 2005, 10:43:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: Shape D. on March 07, 2005, 07:10:11 pm ---But mentioning that some of the games may be illegally played in the system, say namco ones for example, would get their attention.
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Wrong. Ops have been buying and running bootleg game boards since forever. Why would this be any different?
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because its still illegal, they can claim ignorace if they want. but if they have namco games on that machine, they can get fined for it. if they are fined for it mr foley will have some answering to do.
daywane:
can we complain to ebay and have all those cabs taken off for pirated roms?
Shape D.:
--- Quote from: daywane on March 08, 2005, 12:33:12 pm ---can we complain to ebay and have all those cabs taken off for pirated roms?
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Those probobly don't have them on them. theres a notice on his site telling their sellers to take the games off. and I'm willing to bet the ones he makes now don't include those.
RayB:
--- Quote from: Shape D. on March 08, 2005, 12:28:33 pm ---because its still illegal, they can claim ignorace if they want. but if they have namco games on that machine, they can get fined for it. if they are fined for it mr foley will have some answering to do.
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Fines?! Do you think there are copyright police patrolling around handing out tickets? No. Namco has to get their lawyers and take the Op into court. They would also have to establish what copyright infringement occurred, and what the damages are, etc, etc. Be realistic. This won't happen to one lowly Op. It's not worth it to Namco. And the Ops know it.
Shape D.:
--- Quote from: RayB on March 08, 2005, 01:20:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Shape D. on March 08, 2005, 12:28:33 pm ---because its still illegal, they can claim ignorace if they want. but if they have namco games on that machine, they can get fined for it. if they are fined for it mr foley will have some answering to do.
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Fines?! Do you think there are copyright police patrolling around handing out tickets? No. Namco has to get their lawyers and take the Op into court. They would also have to establish what copyright infringement occurred, and what the damages are, etc, etc. Be realistic. This won't happen to one lowly Op. It's not worth it to Namco. And the Ops know it.
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Lowly Op? Its Walmart. They have money.