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MAMEdev is Pulling Auctions!
CheffoJeffo:
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--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 02, 2005, 02:03:17 pm ---
6. You must not include any unlicensed game software (ROMs or CHDs) or artwork with your product. Furthermore, you must not provide information to those who purchase your product concerning where to obtain unlicensed game software.
7. You must not mislead the buyer with pictures or lists of games that do not come included with your product. Any games or pictures you use must refer to properly-licensed games that are included with the purchased product.
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I don't see how this guidline has anything to do with MAME(tm). Mainly the artwork seeing how they covered mame art work earlier.
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This is how:
--- Quote ---Based on the abuses we have seen in the auctions on eBay and elsewhere, we are attempting to define rules surrounding the usage of the MAME trademark.
Below is what we currently have defined.
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The numbered items are the rules surrounding the usage of the term MAME.
Cheers.
EDIT for typo.
SirPoonga:
Bah, just go change your auctions to say emulation instead of mame and be done with it. sheesh.
jelwell:
--- Quote from: saint on June 02, 2005, 07:48:11 pm ---Had to respond to this part -- I hope that in fact you never have seen an advertisement for a MAME DVD on this forum as I specifically have such things blocked.
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Haze must have been talking about mame.net:
It's a shame that mame.net has to profit off of things like "Mame Arcade" and "Complete MAME Arcade". The last ad is my favorite:
"Mame Video Arcade Cabinet Play Centipede & 5000+ arcade games plus xbox on 1 video arcade cabinet".
And yes I know that you can't actually buy the 5000+ arcade games from that vendor - but the vendor did decide to take advantage of that keyword. Oh and I'll let you guys figure out which vendor, linked from mame.net, is selling a cd with a MAME32 binary on it.
I just think it sucks that MAMEdevs have decided to enforce trademark issues rather than licensing issues (trying to sell MAME binaries, or closed source derivatives).
Joseph Elwell.
Shape D.:
--- Quote from: jelwell on June 03, 2005, 04:44:36 pm ---Haze must have been talking about mame.net:
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He could have been talking about here too. they do show up here every once in a while. It seems like saint does his best to keep them off, but they do pop up evry now and again. the only way to block them is to block the individual site.
Haze:
--- Quote from: Shape D. on June 03, 2005, 05:10:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: jelwell on June 03, 2005, 04:44:36 pm ---Haze must have been talking about mame.net:
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He could have been talking about here too. they do show up here every once in a while. It seems like saint does his best to keep them off, but they do pop up evry now and again. the only way to block them is to block the individual site.
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I was talking about here, I've seen a few on my visits.
Believe it or not we've been as tough as we can be with the ones on Mame.net, the problem is half of the remaining ones seem to be some kind of generic ads rather than for a specific seller... We don't have direct control over the advertising so we have to contact the hosts in each case.
The problematic ads on mame.net was one of the deciding factors in dropping mame.net as the official page and moving to mamedev.com which as you can see is ad-free.
Anyway as I've been informed attempts are made here to control the ads, and I thank you for that, this is big business for the scumbags doing it, I once recieved an email offering a 3 figure monthly amount to host ads for their rom dvd site, thats how much it means to them and thats why its becoming a severe problem (given the price of dvds its pretty much a no expenditure all profit 'business'). These people also try their best to work around any ad bans we put in place, registering new urls as fast as we can block them.
I'll fire out the usual reminder that by supporting such people you're damaging the project and the reputation of it, it was never meant to be used to make people huge sums of money.
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