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this is very sad
deadmoney5:
--- Quote from: arcadefever on November 01, 2005, 07:35:03 pm ---cant beleive that some pepole have the guts to sale this !!!!
edit by moderator: no posting links to ROMs. Thank you.
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I can...most people are stupid ;D
koolmoecraig:
You guys should chill.
If it does sell for $10.01 how much is he making after Ebay fees, postage, material and time spent?
Is it better to pay to join a usenet group to download the roms? What's the freakin' difference?
All of us started in this hobby with little or no knowledge of how to get roms. I remember downloading roms off of www.mame.dk one at a time before they shut it down.
Some people act like only they are allowed to have the roms because they know where to get them. Get off your high horses. Not everyone knows about burners or Mame. Think about the newbies.
And don't give me the crap about the copyright holders getting pissed and shutting everything down because we have no right to own the rom to Mr. Do's Castle or whatever unless we own the original PCB. Guess what, most of the old companies are long gone and the ones that aren't don't make a dime if you buy an old PCB off of Ebay or where ever in order to be "legal". Plus, there are so many people out there with roms now that they will NEVER disappear anyway.
It's like the whole downloading a bootleg movie issue. The people who do it would never go see the movie in the first place. Therefore they are not missing a sale of any kind. You think anyone in their right mind would actually line up like a sheep to see a piece of crap like Flightplan!? Errr......It made over $100 million....Alot of sheep in this world I guess.
There is my rant. Enjoy it.
quarterback:
--- Quote from: koolmoecraig on November 01, 2005, 11:28:17 pm ---Some people act like only they are allowed to have the roms because they know where to get them. Get off your high horses. Not everyone knows about burners or Mame.
Think about the newbies.
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Yeah! I think we should have a sticky for newbies with links to all the roms as well ::)
IBTL
missioncontrol:
I have a feeling this thread is going to get ugly
missioncontrol slowly backs away
RandyT:
--- Quote from: koolmoecraig on November 01, 2005, 11:28:17 pm ---You guys should chill.
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Why, because you say so? I think people have a right to be outraged about this kind of thing. Just about anyone here could unfairly profit from this hobby by doing what this individual is doing, yet they don't because they realise the damage potential.
--- Quote ---If it does sell for $10.01 how much is he making after eBay fees, postage, material and time spent?
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This is irrelevant, but at least $8. Probably more if the auction makes it to the end. As for his time, be sure to give the guy who rips off your computer $20 when the cops bring it back to you. It did, after all, take him a half hour plus gas to drive to your house.
--- Quote ---And don't give me the crap about the copyright holders getting pissed and shutting everything down...
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It's not crap. Why do you think mame.dk, where you said you got your roms from, was shut down?
Illegal mainstream distribution, especially for money, will wake the sleeping giants. And everyone, including the newbies, will be adversely affected when this happens.
RandyT