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| Jdurg:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on March 01, 2008, 05:13:04 pm --- I never said that anybody was going to come knocking on your door and arrest you for owning one. It'd be a waste of time and effort and money to go after a single individual. --- End quote --- That truly is the key point. The reason why you don't see people getting their doors busted down is because the amount of effort and money required to bust people for using these illegal boards just simply is not worth it. The thing is, if you are under investigation for something completely different, just for shits and giggles they might decide to fine your or tack on other troubles for you because you are running that illegal board. That's it really. |
| AndyWarne:
--- Quote from: spacies on March 01, 2008, 12:38:06 am ---Every time a thread pops up someone screams you will be prosecuted for owning one. I want to know who is going to do it? --- End quote --- One answer to this is Nintendo of America will. They have successfully prosecuted and fined people for selling and coin-operating multi-game boards with Donkey Kong or other Nintendo games. They won't go after someone using one at home but the OP mentioned siting one which implies coin-operation and they will act on this if they find out. They also have Ebay listings removed which mention these boards if they list any Nintendo games. |
| shardian:
In the real world, the worst that would happen is that your game would be confiscated and you'd get a mild slap on the wrist fine. The store runner wouldn't get anything since it would be the operator that maintains the game and the space is "rented" to them. I have seen a multicades on site with a 48-1 board in it. It was in a chain restaurant and had an OP sticker on it. |
| DaveMMR:
Kind of similar and comparable: I used to work at a used record store that would mix obvious boot-legged CDs in with standard releases (this was back before internet downloading and CD burners were commonplace). They put them in with the used copies so if anything ever happened, they can say they didn't know it was an illegal release when it was traded-off to them. They rationalized it further by admitting their chances of getting caught were slim anyway. Of course, they got busted. How? I don't know. But the MIAA has never been know for being lax about such things. The store is still in operation but they did get hit hard, financially, for dabbling in bootlegs. Now is it the same as running a 39-in-1 board on location? Probably not. But it shows that claiming ignorance or citing invincibility are never wise financial decisions to make. Don't expect to fall back on those if you plop one in a bar. |
| FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 04, 2008, 11:34:28 am --- --- Quote from: AndyWarne on March 04, 2008, 10:42:31 am ---One answer to this is Nintendo of America will. They have successfully prosecuted and fined people for selling and coin-operating multi-game boards with Donkey Kong or other Nintendo games. They won't go after someone using one at home but the OP mentioned siting one which implies coin-operation and they will act on this if they find out. They also have Ebay listings removed which mention these boards if they list any Nintendo games. --- End quote --- Got any proof of this? I've got proof of half a dozen Ebay auctions I've brought to their attention that they've done absolutely nothing about. --- End quote --- I can tell you for sure that Namco gets ebay auctions killed. Mine was. I got a nice little letter from ebay stating that Namco had complained that I was selling a bootleg of their product and they killed my auction and told me not to post another one. I haven't. Do you want the email? Let me go look for it. EDIT: Nice to know you're a snitch BTW...between this and you sending someone to a bogus address to pick up a "FREE" cabinet, it's obvious...you're all class all the time. :tool: |
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