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MonitorGuru:


--- Quote from: divemaster127 on June 02, 2005, 02:30:57 pm ---Let say a person wants to sell their Dell computer on ebay so now you cant use the word dell, I think this is crazy & someone has to much free time on there hands, I have looked at the ebay auctions nobody is selling roms so what harm is being is being done,
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MonitorGuru:


--- Quote from: AlanS17 on June 02, 2005, 03:55:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: divemaster127 on June 02, 2005, 03:43:47 pm ---I think the dev's owe a answer


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I think the devs owe nothing. They could just as easily pack it up and call it quits, and they have every right to do so. We don't have much room to complain here.

If your hobby is based on someone else's hand-outs, then this is what you have to put up with. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Beggars can't be choosers.

Is it annoying? Probably. Is it bad? Maybe a little. Do we have the right to complain? Not at all.

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The BEST quote here, bar none. Well said AlanS

Pilot143:

I normally stay quiet on things like this, but my initial thoughts on this topic has changed.

Adeptus:

Vaguely related story (on the eBay side, not the MAME side)

"Splendour in the Grass", a major music festival here in Australia had its tickets sell out in 18 hours (normally takes a few weeks). Soon afterwards, there were hundreds of tickets being sold on eBay. The festival organisers asked eBay to remove the auctions, they refused.
Because ticket scalping isn't actually illegal here, and eBay have a clause saying the sellers are responsible for honouring ticket conditions (which say, you can not re-sell tickets at a premium).

I wonder if they could have used the "You can't use our name in the auction title" angle...? I'm sure it would be registered and/or trademarked.


paigeoliver:

Any arguement about how wonderfully legal Mame is and how anti-piracy mame is completely goes out the window based on the fact that mame has hardcoded support for hundreds of bootleg romsets.

If Mame is anti-piracy than why do they support bootleg romsets? There is no legal way for ANYONE to possess those romsets.

You can't take the high road when you are still mucking around in the dirt.

My personal suggestion?

End the Mame project now, release the source code free of all restrictions. Let other emulators take up the code and continue the ideas. For all practical purposed Mame has been done for a few years now anyway. ideally 3D games should have a different emulator optimized for 3D games and designed for hardware accelleration.

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