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CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: saint on September 12, 2010, 10:24:11 pm ---* saint responds to a summons.
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I didn't do it this time ... really ... it wasn't me ...

 :dunno

BobA:
It is like a Merry Go Round and around and around and around.    Boring  :banghead:

Driver-Man:

--- Quote from: BobA on September 13, 2010, 08:53:11 pm ---It is like a Merry Go Round and around and around and around.    Boring  :banghead:

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I believe I proved my main point. So, I guess we all agree.

Perhaps the best summary of this argument can be put like this:
- Are any of the Ultracade machines owned by people (who got tax invoice for their purchase) illegal?

At least they seem not to violate MAME license if they indeed had an agreement... so illegal or legal, what say you?

lilshawn:

--- Quote from: saint on September 13, 2010, 06:25:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: lilshawn on September 13, 2010, 02:40:39 pm ---
--- Quote ---It worked out to like a couple of bucks per ROM on average.
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that's not bad at all, and i would pay that for a 60 in one to have it legal. does that then give me the right to put it in my apartment laundromat and make money off it?

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No.

1. They're not available any more StarROMs is out of business.
2. They were licensed for personal use only.
3. MAME does not allow commercial use even if you had the rights to the ROMs.
4. Even if you have an emulator that did and you had the commercial rights to use the ROMs, you still have to get the appropriate business licenses from your local government.


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it's a shame really. but now since starROMs is gone, what happens with the licence? is it now void?

how about a way to "MAME" without the "MAME"? I have several non-working arcade boards. theoretically i have bought and paid for the original - which has since ceased operation. if there was a way to emulate the CPU using some sort of software (not MAME since the developers forbid it so) couldn't i place that machine on our route? i would be simply replacing broken hardware with a modern equivalent.

would the MAMEdevs ever consider producing maybe "one ROM only" commercial use version of their software for such a use? or is this just opening up a pandoras box of trouble??? i mean you would have to supply some kind of proof of ownership...or an AMMA serial number or something and register the software. once it's linked to a particular ROM it needn't be changed right?

Driver-Man:

--- Quote from: saint ---MAME developers don't want money for MAME.

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Is that a fact or speculation? That's what I was saying, although Haze seem to want some, why would he otherwise want 60-in-1 PCBs destroyed?

It's contradiction within another contradiction. Does Rambus want you to destroy your Nvidia cards? No, their work was sold, that's actually a good thing. It's only that someone else sold it for them and is being "late" to pay copyright fees. All they have to do now is get their money from Nvidia.

As far as Nvidia is concerned it's just technicality, kind of like being late to pay the power bill, but no owner of offending Nvidia video card is breaking any laws here. This is not like "blood diamonds", buying this is not helping crime, everything is cool here, no one lost anything, only some of the money still needs to find its way back to home, like Lassie.





--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo ---To be clear, you are NOT with me.

I have bought these boards knowing full well that the games were not licensed and that the use of MAME in them was explicitly illegal. I have made the choice to live with that.

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You have made the choice? Is that some kind of justification? It sounds as if it is you who is making sacrifice here, huh. -- Please point the difference between you and me, and if you can explain why your friends tolerate you what they do not approve to me?




--- Quote ---I have drawn my line in the sand as to where I am morally comfortable and have made arrangements (as best I can) to support those who have contributed to my enjoyment of the hobby

What have you done ?

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Is that not exactly what everyone hates me for? This is just ridiculous, what was everyone's point then attacking me with all the "trying to justify" and "black and white" ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---? -- What I have done? I've come here to tell you not to feel guilty for alleged "crimes" you have nothing to do with. But you never did care for any of the "nagging screens" anyway, so it's all the same for you, dear hypocrite.

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