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bfauska:


--- Quote from: whatzcrackn on October 01, 2007, 10:02:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: langdoguk on October 01, 2007, 10:37:52 am ---Has anybody else noticed how many people are selling MAME cabs with all the games pre-installed , I thought this was illegal  :dunno.




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you people are funny....one hand says play it and the other hand says it is illegal...... :laugh2:

 :tool:

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They are saying it's illegal to SELL it.  It is also against the wishes of the MAME developers and forbidden by their terms of use for their software.  It's about watching out for the type of behavior that raises eyebrows and ruffles feathers of people who could make this hobby much more difficult to enjoy.  Selling systems with MAME and ROMs installed on them is a quick way to show the original copyright holders of the game systems being emulated that people are copying their product and making money off of it.  With many of the games it is unclear whether or not the original developers would care about this behavior, but they are much more likely to care when people are profiting from their work than when people are occasionally using copies that they got free somewhere to enjoy an old game that is now hard to find.

It may be worth thinking about the whole situation before deciding to call people tools in the future.

 :tool:

langdoguk:

I thought it was signed Tool  :cheers:

bfauska:

Oh, maybe it was, i thought everybody got the memo from that other thread about not signing our post.  But the kind of guy that would sign his post "tool" probably ignores those memo's anyway.

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