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MAMEdev is Pulling Auctions!
Chris:
--- Quote from: Haze on June 02, 2005, 05:36:16 pm ---You talk about a large community, unfortunately a significant part of the community does not seem to have our best interests at heart.
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ddockery:
Maye nobody complaining in this thread was selling roms, but I'm sure some of the pulled auctions were. It seems every time I check I can find one of these auctions up. Be it with a contoller, a cab, or on a CD by itself.
monkeybomb:
--- Quote from: AlanS17 on June 02, 2005, 05:39:48 pm --- Why can't people just be greatful?
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I am greatful. But for me I am greatful to all of the people involved in helping me play and relive my childhood games.
Those that dumped the boards
Those that wrote the software
Those that helped me build a cabinet
Those who make the encoders
Those who sell products
And yes the ROM burner who got me the ROMS
Without all of those things the rest are useless to me. I can see why it is important to go after the burners to protect themselves, but the encoder makers? If their laywer said to do then fine. But to me without the encoder the software is useless.
KevSteele:
Haze,
I can understand your position, and the fear of legal action, but squashing legal products that can be used with MAME for fear of illegal ROM sales is punishing the wrong people.
I know the community could help more with stopping illegal ROM sales - I've filtered all ROM sales from my site's Google ads, and am pretty vigilant about making sure any new ones get squashed as well.
The new rules (and the enforcement) do have that "designed by committee" feel to them. I'm only asking that you review the two points I've made, and perhaps loosen the noose for legal product to more freely acknowledge that they can be used with MAME(tm).
Personally, I'm thinking a trademark notice and a "MAME is a registered trademark of Nicolas Salmoria. This product is not affilated with or endorsed by MAME" - type notice may be a good compromise. Perhaps even a "licensing fee" that could be used for board dumps?
Just some thoughts for discussion.
Shape D.:
--- Quote from: divemaster127 on June 02, 2005, 05:45:59 pm ---Not one thing that was shut down on ebay was illegal I keep seeing the wording Illegal roms, not one person on ebay was selling illegal roms, it was buttons, a encoder etc, so what harm is being done to mame in this way...
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selling a "mame button" implies that you are selling a button that was made by the mame team or specifically for use with mame.
buttons are leaf or microswitch style buttons not mame buttons so they shouldn't be advertising them as such anyways.
encoders are keyboard encoders. They don't just work with mame, they translate buttons into keypresses you could technically use ms word with them if you wanted to.
using the mame name in the title or ecessivley in the auction implies association with the mame team. Those peopple did not assist with anything to create mame and are using their name as a way to make extra money.