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| Dav:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on June 03, 2005, 12:56:22 am ---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. --- End quote --- That's open to debate. If fair use allows me to play mspacman on a PC it seems to me the same fair use would allow me to play mspacman in mame on make trax hardware or galaxian hardware just the same as on pacman hardware. Or play mspacman on an actual make trax board, which I do btw since they are more reliable than pacman boards. |
| paigeoliver:
Ah, but what about "Space Pilot" or Super Zola Pac-Gal, or anyone of the other hundreds of bootleg romsets that are more than just hacked to run on different hardware, but that also remove or change the copyright information and change the title? |
| Dav:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on June 03, 2005, 01:52:13 am ---Ah, but what about "Space Pilot" or Super Zola Pac-Gal, or anyone of the other hundreds of bootleg romsets that are more than just hacked to run on different hardware, but that also remove or change the copyright information and change the title? --- End quote --- Nothing illegal about that, fair use allows people to change their roms. Any new code is copyrighted by the author, so I'd need to own a zola board as well as a mspac board to run zola. It may have been illegal for the zola people to sell the board since they didn't have rights to it. But I have a dozen original mspacman boards, I certaiinly would have fair use rights to use ms pacman code. |
| DreamArcades:
I just thought everyone should know that I received an e-mail from Aaron Giles tonight. He apologized for my trouble with Ebay and has offer to work with me to make fix it. I had about 10 auctions removed today (by the MAMEdev |
| paigeoliver:
Ah, but there is the trick, there is no such thing as a legal Zola board to begin with. Here is an example, lets say I happen to have a bootleg copy of "The Phantom Menace" on a VCD, copied with a video camera in a movie theatre in a foreign country. I can buy 100 Phantom Menace DVDs, I can even stand in front of my own TV with a camera and make a "fair use" copy that way, but nothing I am going to do is going to validate that asian bootleg VCD. I do admit that I have very little respect for copyright law to begin with (due to misuse, abuse and such by holders), and I personally own bootleg Space Pilot, Kicker, Tutankhamen, Multi-Williams, and Kung Fu Master boards, along with a Space Invaders version that is rather questionable. What I am saying is either respect it or don't, just don't take the double standard approach of "It doesn't apply to what I do, but it does apply to what others do in relation to me." |
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