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CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Chris on June 02, 2005, 08:19:39 pm ---Aaron's resonse in the mame.net forum has nothing to do with legal fears and everything to do with "we're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore."
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I dunno ... I thought that
--- Quote ---The fact that there are a number of outright illegal products using "MAME" to sell themselves only means that it is imperative for us to take action.
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was pretty clearly about the legal fears. But I could be wrong ...
As for being mad as hell, if you had
- a bunch of clowns putting your @$$ at risk with illegal activities
- a bunch of folks who don't pay you anything, but then use the reputation of a project that you work hard on (and they have little or nothing to do with) to make money
- a bunch of people (who also don't pay you) who complain about you the way you treat the folks above
then I suspect that you would be mad as hell as well. I sure would.
I believe that the restrictions are a bit severe, but I also believe that, as the situation becomes clearer, they will be relaxed.
I do think that your characterization of "out and out abuse" is off the mark ... if they were out for that, there are at least a hundred better ways of achieving it (say, by, killing the whole project). They are protecting themselves and, as you imply, righting some wrongs that they perceive with the use of their work.
I can't really fault them for that ... after all, it is THEIR work that gives rise to all of this, isn't it ?
Cheers.
Chris:
--- Quote from: Dav on June 02, 2005, 08:35:36 pm ---The abuse is putting someone elses name on a product and selling it.
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CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Chris on June 02, 2005, 08:37:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dav on June 02, 2005, 08:35:36 pm ---The abuse is putting someone elses name on a product and selling it. Mame keyboad encoder. If someone put my name on a product for sale I'd be ticked too.
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MAME keyboard encoder? Marginal, but understandable pull. Keyboard encoder compatible with MME? Pulling that is rubbish.
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I thought that Aaron explained that adequately in his posts on mame.net ... we can disagree and say that they should look at every single auction to make individual determinations, but he explained why they aren't doing that.
Cheers.
Chris:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on June 02, 2005, 08:44:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Chris on June 02, 2005, 08:37:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dav on June 02, 2005, 08:35:36 pm ---The abuse is putting someone elses name on a product and selling it.
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CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Chris on June 02, 2005, 08:47:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on June 02, 2005, 08:44:03 pm ---I thought that Aaron explained that adequately in his posts on mame.net ... we can disagree and say that they should look at every single auction to make individual determinations, but he explained why they aren't doing that.
Cheers.
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Right... which had nothing to the "legal fears for his family" you brought up.
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OK ... I have no idea what that is supposed to mean ... you can't pull one issue, out of context, from a post that adresses multiple and related issues and say "Right ... that has nothing to do with X". Holy non-sequiturs, BatMan.
[EDIT: I meant Aaron's post here, not mine.]
1) They have legal fears due to illegal activities involving the name (do you disagree with this ?)
2) They don't want to spend time/open a can of worms by examining each and every auction
You may think that they *should* spend the time and look at each auction individually (perhaps someone could volunteer for the position of "inappropriate eBay auction title inspector"), but the fact that you disagree with (2) does not negate the fact that action had to be taken due to (1), as you state in your response above.
Cheers.
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