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How do you know your JAMMA PCB is legal?
CheffoJeffo:
FWIW, I had been looking for a case that I remembered of where a vendor had cabinets seized because the vendor used xx-in-1 boards ... which they had purchased, been invoiced for and paid tax on. >:D
I found the details this morning in one of Ken Layton's posts over on KLOV.
--- Quote ---From Replay magazine:
FEDS SEIZE ALLEGED CLASSIC VIDEOGAME COPIES
(Posted November 6, 2009 -- 3PM)
A load of recently confiscated games were reportedly illegal classic video titles, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department. As reported earlier by RePlay, federal customs officials seized 168 coin-op videogames at the Los Angeles seaport on Oct. 23, 2009.
“The shipment had a total domestic value of $138,000 and a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $672,000,” federal officials declared in a release to the media. “CBP officers seized the videogame machines on October 23 after confirming the videogames were not legally authorized. The shipment had arrived inside a sea container from China.”
The machines in question contained several copyrighted videogames, which are registered with the U.S. Copyright Office and recorded with CBP. The videogames found on the coin-operated machines were Frogger, Scramble, Time Pilot, Ms. Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3 and Donkey Kong. CBP seized the items when the importer was unable to provide authorization from the owners.
CBP has designated intellectual property rights enforcement a priority trade issue, devoting considerable resources and personnel to property rights enforcement. CBP’s strategic approach is multi-layered and includes seizing fake goods at our borders, pushing the border outward through audits of infringing importers, cooperation with our international trading partners and collaborating with industry and other government agencies to enhance these efforts.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation’s borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
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Driver-Man:
CheffoJeffo,
Very good, I applaud you once more. -- Could you also dig up, somehow, a follow up on that? I wonder what were the charges and if the importers said: "we did not know", and also if there were any international proceedings held for exporters.
Malenko:
It was the right link you assclown, holy ---fudgesicle--- do you have selective reading! Did you miss this post?
--- Quote from: Haze on June 27, 2007, 10:59:24 am ---I am led to believe that ALL of the mutligame boards ARE infact MAME based. The lower capacity ones appear to be running an older version of MAME (0.36 era and before) that has been ported to the SH2/4 and ARM cpus found on the boards. I've been sent an extract of one of the roms from them which contains MAME-like structures with some copyright strings etc. blanked out. They're probably ported from the Dreamcast versions and such and only run a limited number of games because each one has been hacked to run faster, and they can make more profit by selling more kits.
I've been pointed here because some people still apparently want to argue that these things are legal. They're not.
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--- Quote from: Haze on June 27, 2007, 12:20:15 pm ---I've been sent partial dumps of several of these from fried boards. They contain tell-tale signs of being MAME, for example mame.cfg files, mame.dk readme, MAME romset names, disclaimer strings disabled but not deleted etc.
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Driver-Man:
Malenko,
You are the weakest link, good bye.
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