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Tiger-Heli:
Here's a fairly good or bad summary of how we got to this point: http://retroblast.com/articles/TSR_editorial.html

Thanks KevSteele for hosting this.

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kahlid74:

--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on June 07, 2005, 02:07:36 pm ---BLEEM! is still a precedent.
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NiN^_^NiN:
my hands weren't compatiable with mame joystick on a mame cab so i had to buy some new hands off ebay so i had mame compatiable hands  ::)
KevSteele:
One bright spot in the ongoing 'copyright wars' is the fact that the "broadcast flag" proposal for digital TV was thrown out. With the flag, broadcasters could have specified what can and cannot be recorded.

One thing that I hope the RIAA mess has shown is that it is pointless to crack down on infringement until a legal alternative is available. Don't just tell people not to do something: give them a legal way. Cracking down on illegal music, ROMs, or whatever when there is no legal way to download content is only going to force people to consider themselves "outlaws" and continue doing what they were doing.

I just saw a report this morning that iTunes now has more traffic than P2P sites (how they measured this I don't know), but it brings home a point: people generally want to do the right thing, but when a legal route is not available, they will wander the trail less traveled.

It pains me to say this, but I really hope that Foley's "i-ROMs" service is a success. If we can get reasonably priced legal ROMs, MAME can step out of the shadows and all of this trademark nonsense will be pointless. None of this would be happening if legal ROMs were available.

I'm trying to write an article about this situation, and I've actually been in contact with David Foley via email. I got some surprising answers to my questions, and I'm now going to be interviewing Aaron Giles, as I really want to try and present a balanced view of why this happened and what's next for the MAME community.

Kevin
Chris:

--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 08, 2005, 08:56:46 am ---It pains me to say this, but I really hope that Foley's "i-ROMs" service is a success. If we can get reasonably priced legal ROMs, MAME can step out of the shadows and all of this trademark nonsense will be pointless. None of this would be happening if legal ROMs were available.

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I disagree.  The defenders of the MAMEDevs' actions keep saying this is about legal protection, but the MAMEDevs themselves say this is about keeping people from making any money off their name.  In that respect, having legally-available ROMs will make the trademark situation worse, not better.
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