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Mame cab on Ebay .... is this legal?

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RayB:

Registering a trademark is like $250 and up. Not exactly a bank breaker.



SavannahLion:


--- Quote from: RayB on April 02, 2007, 04:17:37 pm ---Registering a trademark is like $250 and up. Not exactly a bank breaker.

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Just because you register a trademark doesn't make the rest of the process of protecting that trademark free of costs.

leapinlew:

I think it's a nice looking machine and the price is right.

Tahnok:


--- Quote from: horseboy on April 02, 2007, 01:53:29 pm ---[...]
I figure Ebay is pretty much the only place they get any kind of protection. People sell illegal mame cabs all the time.

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If they wanted though, Mame could report those sites to their web hosts and ISP to get them shutdown. Hosts and ISPs want to cover their butts as much as eBay does.

SavannahLion:


--- Quote from: Tahnok on April 02, 2007, 05:57:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: horseboy on April 02, 2007, 01:53:29 pm ---[...]
I figure Ebay is pretty much the only place they get any kind of protection. People sell illegal mame cabs all the time.

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If they wanted though, Mame could report those sites to their web hosts and ISP to get them shutdown. Hosts and ISPs want to cover their butts as much as eBay does.

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That's not really true for all hosts or ISPs though.

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