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DarkKobold:
You are also forgetting that, for the most part, 80's/early 90's emulation is mostly finished.

Even if the VGIAA (Video Game Industry Ass. of America fictional) cracked down, threw every mame dev in prison (heaven forbid), you, and millions of others, still have a copy of Mame. They can't throw Bob Roberts, or Happ, or Saint in prison. Just building a cab isn't illegal. This hobby won't die to VGIAA.

Mame could stop tommorrow, and I would still be satisified for decades.....

AlanS17:
I think one of the reasons the hobby is so popular is because MAME is constantly being improved and it drives to the desire to improve cabs. If MAME were stopped and ROMs were no longer distributed, the hobby itself would (probably) slowly go downhill.

Matt Berry:

--- Quote from: hulkster on September 15, 2004, 02:20:57 pm ---seems to me that there have been a lot more sightings of mame cabs recently....maybe im just paranoid, but i keep thinking that somebody (RIAA-ish except for mame stuff) will come along and find places where roms are distributed or whatever...and start filing lawsuits left and right.  am i worried over nothing??

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I wouldn't worry about emulation or roms disappearing. When emulators were new there were more dependicies on just a few sources for roms mostly 1995-96. Once emulators became more popular the great witch hunts by the IDSA began. Tons of websites were shut down, pulled and threatened, some of my favorites were among the casualties. Great changes  were on the horizon, many feared the worst as it became harder to find roms but they were still available. One that I thought was funny was nintendo teaming up with the IDSA to stop the spread of donkey kong, and other nintendo owned material. Did all of this stop the spread of roms and emulation, no, it has only gotten better and stronger.  It is a lot easier then ever to get complete sets of any type of roms. They also tried to stop MP3's when they first started, again they failed. The point is once something becomes popular the industry can do little to stop it, so fear not.

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