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JUST SAW A PLUG FOR ARCADECONTROLS.COM ON CNN!!!!
Edgedamage:
Private individuals have nothing to worry about. What I am trying to say is game companies won't go after someone who is running a classic game in the privacy of their own home. Owned roms or not. For sellers of cabinets just sell the cab with the computer. And make sure the cab has no copyrighted artwork. So all customer gets is non-copyrighted infringing cabinet. And the only software supplied with the cab is the op system for the computer. Getting the emulation software for anyone is the easy part building a cabinet is the hard part. But the sad part of all this is the game companies
might really start looking at mame and get those really crafty lawyers to try to shut down mame. Look what happened to BLEEM!
RetroJames:
--- Quote --- But the sad part of all this is the game companies
might really start looking at mame and get those really crafty lawyers to try to shut down mame. Look what happened to BLEEM!
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Very real possibility if;
Newer ROMs are emulated that would cut into Coin-op corps. sales like namco etc.
Console emulators for the new games on xbox, ps2 etc start cutting into sales.
Also, I am concerned about the how blatant some are about selling MAME cabinets. I have seen many on ebay and on mom&pop websites advertising, ready to go, fully loaded, roms and all, mame cabinets. That is bad.
It all depends if people start cutting into a large company's or industries profits. That's when lawyers smell blood in the water. Personally I think the console games are going to be the first crack in the damn.
jerryjanis:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on April 09, 2004, 12:57:25 am ---The rest will flood the hobby solely for the "cool" factor, which usually brings the llamas and the lawyers.
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Does "llama" mean something?
I own the Starroms games, and the Capcom collection that came with the HotRod joystick. That probably includes more than half of the really really good Mame games, so I'd be happy to be trapped on an island with nothing but an arcade cabinet and the set of legal roms for the rest of my life. I certainly wish that more (all) the games would be legally obtainable, though.
I hope I get to see the CNN episode!
Gideon:
--- Quote from: 1hookedspacecadet on April 09, 2004, 10:05:53 am ---Also, I am concerned about the how blatant some are about selling MAME cabinets. I have seen many on ebay and on mom&pop websites advertising, ready to go, fully loaded, roms and all, mame cabinets. That is bad.
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Well, you reported it, right? I'm not a major eBayer, but I'm fairly certain that's a policy violation.
maraxle:
--- Quote from: Edgedamage on April 09, 2004, 09:33:35 am ---Private individuals have nothing to worry about. What I am trying to say is game companies won't go after someone who is running a classic game in the privacy of their own home. Owned roms or not.
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You know, I remember some of my friends saying something kind of similar about the whole Napster/Kazaa/P2P thing...
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