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SirPoonga:
is this the rant thread?

I haven't read this all but it seems like people trying to profit off og legit multigames was not considered too.  The reason it is taboo is it creates unfair competition.  For the home user jus tdownloading the rom, if the company doesn't exists, there's no one to enforce the copyright.  But in the business world there is action that can be taken (see Ultracade).

Who says company's aren't enforcing their copyright and not trying to shut roms sites down?  Just becuase the couple you frequent aren't shut down?  It isn't that easy in some cases.
For example, there's a well used bit torrent tracker in sweden.  They get many threats to shut the site down because they are providing illegal content (which is funny to read their comments on the their site).  But, according to sweden laws they are not, since the actual content is not on their servers.  However some country laws would call what they are doing aiding and abedding and is against the law in that country.  However since the site isn't under that country's jurisdiction they can't do anything.  That's the case with many of these rom sites.  We don't want them linked here to cover our butts.

Look at the list you have in the first post.  Most of those are from companies that are actively enforcing copyright (Namco, Disney..).  The site probably got a ceise and desist letter and just removed that company's content.

Also if you were around about 4-5 years ago you'd know about mame.dk.  mame.dk was a mame rom site with tons of other information that was very helpful (which is why MAWS exists).  They were shutdown on a regular basis.  But a couple months later they'd be back up.  Then they went to a subscription where if you were a registered member you could see the downloads, but if not you wouldn't.  They tried all sorts of things.  I think what finally got them was someone made it so they couldn't renew the domain name.



--- Quote ---is a legal gray area (including IMHO StarRoms and the Capcom Roms that ship with the HotRod)
--- End quote ---
Why?  They have permission from the Capcom and Atari.
MikeQ:

--- Quote from: SirPoonga on January 24, 2006, 02:54:57 pm ---is this the rant thread?

I haven't read this all but it seems like people trying to profit off og legit multigames was not considered too.  The reason it is taboo is it creates unfair competition.  For the home user jus tdownloading the rom, if the company doesn't exists, there's no one to enforce the copyright.  But in the business world there is action that can be taken (see Ultracade).

Who says company's aren't enforcing their copyright and not trying to shut roms sites down?  Just becuase the couple you frequent aren't shut down?  It isn't that easy in some cases.
For example, there's a well used bit torrent tracker in sweden.  They get many threats to shut the site down because they are providing illegal content (which is funny to read their comments on the their site).  But, according to sweden laws they are not, since the actual content is not on their servers.  However some country laws would call what they are doing aiding and abedding and is against the law in that country.  However since the site isn't under that country's jurisdiction they can't do anything.  That's the case with many of these rom sites.  We don't want them linked here to cover our butts.

Look at the list you have in the first post.  Most of those are from companies that are actively enforcing copyright (Namco, Disney..).  The site probably got a ceise and desist letter and just removed that company's content.

Also if you were around about 4-5 years ago you'd know about mame.dk.  mame.dk was a mame rom site with tons of other information that was very helpful (which is why MAWS exists).  They were shutdown on a regular basis.  But a couple months later they'd be back up.  Then they went to a subscription where if you were a registered member you could see the downloads, but if not you wouldn't.  They tried all sorts of things.  I think what finally got them was someone made it so they couldn't renew the domain name.



--- Quote ---is a legal gray area (including IMHO StarRoms and the Capcom Roms that ship with the HotRod)
--- End quote ---
Why?  They have permission from the Capcom and Atari.

--- End quote ---

He he.  Not the rant.  This could be a fun game though.  :)  It was in the blinkly light thread in response to a question by buddabing
JoyMonkey:
Hey! I found the rant post here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=37190.msg476960#msg476960

Now what do I win!? Will you put all the AdvMame display features into your Mame build for me!?


( kidding  ;) )
MikeQ:
You win a free beta test kit of LEDWizMAME.  Minimum of 12 hours of testing required!!
JoyMonkey:
Oh gee whizz! Wait till I tell the wife! I never win anything!
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