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Dexter:
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--- Quote from: Chris on June 03, 2005, 10:12:45 am ---I would love to be wrong, but they have stated the goals of their project and their "MAME isn't for playing games" stand numerous times.
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Dav:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on June 03, 2005, 02:21:18 am ---Ah, but there is the trick, there is no such thing as a legal Zola board to begin with.
Here is an example, lets say I happen to have a bootleg copy of "The Phantom Menace" on a VCD, copied with a video camera in a movie theatre in a foreign country. I can buy 100 Phantom Menace DVDs, I can even stand in front of my own TV with a camera and make a "fair use" copy that way, but nothing I am going to do is going to validate that asian bootleg VCD.
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It doesn't matter that there's no legal zola boards. If usa network had rights to show phantom menace does it really matter where they got their copy? The CD itself is illegal, the information on the cd is not. If I buy 100 licenses for a software product they don't actually send me 100 cd's. I can get the software anywhere.
And in fact that's happened. Someone mentioned that some of the commercial emulator CD's have readme's along with the roms showing they were downloaded from illegal sites, doesn't make the roms illegal, just the site they got it from.
Dav:
--- Quote from: Dexter on June 03, 2005, 10:37:38 am ---
--- Quote from: Chris on June 03, 2005, 10:15:16 am ---
--- Quote from: Chris on June 03, 2005, 10:12:45 am ---I would love to be wrong, but they have stated the goals of their project and their "MAME isn't for playing games" stand numerous times.
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In fact, this is actually mentioned right on the mame.net homepage:
--- Quote ---Even though MAME allows people to enjoy the long-lost arcade games and even some newer ones, the main purpose of the project is to document the hardware (and software) of the arcade games. There are already many dead arcade boards, whose function has been brought to life in MAME. Being able to play the games is just a nice side-effect.
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As I said, just like being able to listen to my music CDRs is a nice side effect of my documenting albums that I never actually bought.
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That would be a valid comparison if your CDRs contained only the checksums of albums and a copy of winamp.
Chris:
--- Quote from: Haze on June 03, 2005, 10:32:09 am ---Claims that we wish to start any sort of war with the community are highly exagerated and overblown...
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Now you're exaggerating.
markrvp:
--- Quote from: Chris on June 03, 2005, 10:12:45 am ---
--- Quote ---Those of us who work on MAME are interested in preserving the understanding of how this hardware works. The fact that there is a cottage industry for hobbyists built up around it isn't a big deal. The fact that it is expanding into a large marketplace with a large amount of copyright infringement and abuse is hugely concerning. It is important to distance MAME as far away from that as possible, because it is only going to hurt us in the long run.
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So, at best, we're "not a big deal" to them, and at worst we're "infringers and abusers" that are of concern to them.
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