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Discussion: Ultracade and the Mame Trademark
mnm1200:
--- Quote from: DreamArcades on February 21, 2005, 02:21:43 pm ---David Foley successfully lobbied Ebay to shutdown my Cocktail arcade kit auctions last night. He said I was using illegally using MAME as a keyword. Here
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shawnzilla:
Here is the situation as I see it (in broad strokes):
1) Mr. Foley has decided to make his stand and shakeup a community of hobbyists. I will not attempt to go inside of his head and guess at his personal motivations.
2) Whatever his motivations are (money, personal satisfaction, morals, etc...), he represents a threat to the hobby that we all know and love.
3) He has initiated a canvasing campaign towards the various hobby-related vendors in an attempt to exthort money.
The remedy?
1) There needs to be an unprecedented banding together of all involved: a) The Vendors (Oscar, Emdkay, Mamemarquees, Slikstik, etc...) b) The Programmers (Nicola, Aaron Giles, etc...) c) The authors & webmasters (shameless plug for Saint's book) d) The hobbyists e) The artist of the MAME logo
2) We need to find out if there's an attorney within the BYOAC community who would be able to serve as an advisor
3) Create a united opposition
I'm probably just re-stating the obvious.
ROM: Spaceknight:
Just sent this to eBay's VeRO program:
Topics > Safe Trading > If Something Goes Wrong
JODY:
--- Quote from: FractalWalk on February 21, 2005, 02:02:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: dmsuchy on February 21, 2005, 01:46:36 pm ---Is it really wrong to advertise a cab that says it can play 4000 games, when it really can legally?
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Just to play devils' advocate, his point is that you can't do it legally. To play 4,000 games you would have to break the law. While I don't agree with his actions, I think the point is valid.
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Many have mentioned the 4000 games issue concerning you can't play 4000 games legally. This is not true. There are 1000's of freeware games for Windows and DOS. They are free and legal. A MAME cabinet is usually based on an Intel compatible CPU.
mahuti:
He's forgetting about StarRoms. Those run on MAME just fine, as well as Robby Roto, etc. And those are perfectly legit. Just becaue there are bootleg CDs floating around, doesn't make CD players illegal. That same argument... 90% of MP3s are either ripped from peoples' own CDs or they're illegal. That doesn't make MP3 player software guilty of inciting piracy (i.e. iTunes, etc)
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