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| RayB:
I'll admit I'm on the fence here. The purpose of uploading art to the localarcade library is precisely so people have a resource to create repro art to finish/restore their cabs. There isn't a big difference between someone emailing MameMarquees a file from the Library, paying to have it printed, and what this guy is doing. The only difference is that this guy is advertising the available artwork. It's kind of grey.... (unless you get into the whole copyright issues, but hopefully we won't go down that road AGAIN) |
| CheffoJeffo:
Agree with RayB for the most part. Is mostly irrelevant anyway ... The Evil Corporate Overload (tm) has undoubtedly seen this and the seller is asking to be spanked. It is somewhat odd that, as a group (this thread not indicative ... yet), we seem to respect the "rights" of people who do things for free that benefit us, but not the rights of those who put up their own money to obtain legal rights to various properties in order to turn a profit ... hmmm ... EDIT: In case nobody gets the reference, I am not talking about the seller in the preceding comment. NOTE: To be clear, I am very happy that so many people have put so much time into preserving the artwork -- thanks and respect to them. In the event that I can't find artwork for cabinets that come into my possession, I may well avail myself of their efforts. Cheers. |
| mahuti:
THE purpose of me running localarcade is to preserve the art... so much of it gets destroyed... it's such a shame. Like mame, there are side benefits to my attempts at preservation, however. Unfortunately, the more obvious the bootlegging is, the more likelihood that I will eventually be forced to take stuff down, and the more likely it is that I will get sued. If any legit organization ever asked me to take stuff down I would.. in a heartbeat, but asking nicely won't necessarily be someone's first course of action. I generally try to stay under the radar, I try not to encourage discussion of localarcade in terms of legalities. And I do my best not to encourage widescale art profiteering. For instance, I only have a link to mamemarquees as a courtesy, because Scott has been so good to so many users here.... I don't get paid for it. He was good to us before localarcade even existed. Anyway, someone always brings it up the tough issues though, and forces me to come out of the woodwork and try to legitimize my project. I don't know that I fully can, I just know that I feel better knowing that I might be helping to preserve the roots of an interesting and unique art movement. The game companies consider the stuff assets... I consider it art, something bigger than their corporate interests... something that they never will. I have mixed feelings about my own site. I think about taking it offline some times. The more I have to talk about it, the more I feel like taking it down. Really, it was sort of just a BYOAC friends helping friends site... now it reaches across the globe... about 750,000 visits, 1300 registered members. It's gotten a little out of hand. That being said... we work hard to preserve the stuff. Someone else works hard to pervert our aims. That's a pretty common thread throughout this entire hobby. Hypocrisy kind of goes hand in hand with the emulation world... and I don't see that changing any time soon. |
| Havok:
Everyone here has never heard of your site, and it does not exist. Please move along... |
| KenToad:
Well said, Mahuti. The level of dignity on this forum never ceases to amaze me. Cheers, KenToad |
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