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Using a MAME machine for charity fund raising?
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paigeoliver:
Is it in violation of the Mame license?

Yes.

Is the Mame license even even remotely enforcable outside of ebay.

No.

Do the police care about copyright violation?

None that I have ever met cared at all. They seem as uncaring about this issue as the average guy on the street.

Has there ever even been a case of an operator getting sued for operating bootleg games? I have seen the suckers on location my whole life, never heard of ANYTHING happening from it.
Lilwolf:
btw, I've heard the mame team (pretty sure, while ago) saying that they didn't think having a MAME cab in a comminuty center (like boys club or something) was a bad thing.  As long as it didn't take coins.   

But ethically its wrong.  I know it is (and have justified it to myself).  But its not really the best thing for an organization to endorse. 

Also, MAME isn't who you have to watch out for.  (just disrespectful to go against their wishes).  The ROM holders are the issue.  they are the ones who would go after you.  There are no legal commercial roms available outside of paying a LOT for a cab (think Dave Foley)
Bill Mote:
Have you ever heard, "no good deed goes unpunished?"  Don't do it.  The wrong person will see the cabinet and start asking questions.

dot
kcorcoran:
... asking questions like...

dude.. can you build me one of those?

man.. how much would you charge me to build one of those?

can i buy this one from you?



is anyone paying taxes at yard sales? no. put  them all in jail.
ever make a turn without using your signal? throw you in jail.

i dunno. there's a lot of higher authority running around on this site but the reality is that 99.9% of the people on this board were infringing copyrights the day they hit "5" on the keyboard and coined up their first game or space invaders, ms pacman or whatever.

let's all just delete the roms folder on our machines... all together now..

3... 2.... 1....  DELETED.





er.
how about no.

do whatever it is you think you can get away with. it's what makes the world go 'round.



Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: kcorcoran on July 14, 2005, 01:16:32 pm ---i dunno. there's a lot of higher authority running around on this site but the reality is that 99.9% of the people on this board were infringing copyrights the day they hit "5" on the keyboard and coined up their first game or space invaders, ms pacman or whatever.

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If you're referring to me, I never claimed whether I was or wasn't infinging on copyrights.  The OP asked if there were problems with this, and there are possible problems with the MAME license and the ROM copyrights.  I didn't even say he shouldn't do it b/c of this.  Just answering the question as posed.

If you ask me if you owe taxes on a yard sale - of course, if you made more on the sale of the item than you originally paid for it and don't depreciate the losses on the other items.  If you ask if you will go to jail if you don't report it, that's a different question.
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