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MAMEdev is Pulling Auctions!
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on June 08, 2005, 12:31:08 pm ---And as Haze has stated, if everyone gets PO'd at the MAME team not supporting their requests and hassling E-bay sellers and decides they'd rather use Raine, that will be fine with them as well!
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Exactly. The hand that has been feeding these idiots has finally been bitten too many times. I'm surprised it took this long.
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 08, 2005, 12:27:39 pm ---There is a difference between reverse engineering a couple of boards to preserve them, and building a MAME cab with 7000 games on it, having contributed nothing to MAME or preservation.
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I agree, I was just being devils advocate in making sure you realize that while there is a difference, it's all still considered illegal.
I also agree they are tired, and also that possibly after avoiding/not thinking about legal implications something happened that made them have to proactively govern something they built out of passion for creativity and ideas.
Crazy Cooter:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on June 08, 2005, 08:28:43 am ---Here's a fairly good summary of how we got to this point: http://retroblast.com/articles/TSR_editorial.html
Thanks KevSteele for hosting this.
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That's one of the most biased articles I've ever read (no offense Kevin). It sounds like a commercial for Ultracrap. ROM's are not mp3's. Show me where the back of a Centipede game has the same legal verbage as a cd does. It isn't there. Apples to Oranges.
"In a contentious move the company exploited the neglect of the MAME team copyright or licenses their name and logo, attempted to acquire the rights for themselves - hoping from this position of power to directly attack those illegal users, or just shake up MAME."
Foley commited a CRIME doing this. How in the world is that a "contentious move"? It's a crime. A bully tactic. Yet Foley is painted as some savior? That's sad.
I don't see how calling the MAMEdevs neglectful and not grown up, the MAME fan-base immature all while painting Foley in a white suit is even close to a balanced article.
"As defensive as when the music industry attempted to close down NAPSTER, accusations against UltraCade were thrown freely. Stung into action the MAME developers bit the bullet and took hold of their responsibility, and through last-minute negotiations with UltraCade took over the control of the MAME trademark, "
Accusations of willfully filing an illegal trademark application? Look on the USPTO site, It's a crime. Read under "
ChadTower:
Crazy Cooter:
There's no way I could make a face like that without crapping my drawers. ;)
Let the photochopping begin...