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Is Foley really the devil..?? (Previously: RetroBlast is a traitor..??)

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MameMaster!:
I definitely feel he's permanently lost out on the MAME crowd, but I wonder if there's any market left beyond our community for arcade retrogaming?


Kevin....I think that's really the point here......beyond the "MAME TM" crowd (and who knows globally how big this group is really is ..... 100,000???....and I think that's optimistic)....NONE of us (or at best VERY FEW of us will participate in the "iROMS" program (by the way has anyone told Apple about this?).....

So who's left for this service?....the average joe paying $9.99 or $19.99 for JAKKS plug/play stuff?....the rich guy that buys expensive gifts at holiday time in the Shaper Image?....really what is the audience here?....where's the sustainable business model?

It's unfortunate that DF didn't marshall his resources to WOO THE MAME COMMUNITY NOT ALIENATE them.....too bad. Too late Dave.

I think a lot of us think you're a shrewd businessman...but you're really off target here....and I for one don't see how you can possibly make any real money off of this scheme.

But....time will tell. Who would have thought Michael Jackson would have walked?....maybe you'll be laughing at all of us in a couple of years.....but I doubt it.

KevSteele:

--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on June 17, 2005, 09:04:51 am ---
--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 17, 2005, 08:49:11 am ---One other thing everyone needs to remember: once iROMs is launched, Foley has promised a crackdown on pirate ROM sites. Don't know what that means for us all, exactly, but I predict more fireworks...

--- End quote ---

I didn't realize there were still rom sites out there. Don't people use bittorrent or newsgroups to find roms these days? I don't think he'll be able to do anything about that (or is he more powerfull than the RIAA?)

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Problem with bittorrent currently is the requirement for a tracker site, which is what would be targeted by Foley. Worse, other tracker sites have been forced to turn over their logs, which shows who downloaded what (a bunch of trackers were recently shut down by the MPAA over the distribution of Star Wars III)

I know the bittorrent community is working on decentralized trackers, however.

Kevin

Lilwolf:
iRoms would have a market.  Sure hes !@#$ up that market... But I will try and buy any roms I can legally.  Even from someone like him.  Why?  I want to legitamize my machine.  So if the price is right, on my favorite games, I will probably purchase...  But it will take a while before I buy from Foley for sure...  But just because he is a ja!@ Ars@# doesn't mean that my morals have changed.

As for bittorrent + trackers...  Someone built up a BitTorrent + RSS feed system that works with some white box / tivo computers.  So you can select tv shows in the past, it will RSS a request for that show.  Anyone on the system who recorded it will automatically put up a torrent and broadcast it.  Then anyone who is interested will start downloading it.  Pretty cool system.   I hope they do something similar.

but a problem with bit torrent... you don't have to access the server to get the info.  People can find all the the main seeds.  Then find from them (by attaching) all of the leechers.  This is all standard through the protocol.  So don't think your safe.  just realize that its more of a hassle then its worth to find out...  IE don't download really sensitive movies / code.   Starwars III wasn't the first movie to go after torrents.

Lilwolf:
btw, can whoever started this thread change the title?

It doesn't seem like anyone is talking about RetroBlast anymore.  And I think its kinda damning. 

Edgedamage:
I think a few people should send Apple a few emails like this:"how do I sign up for your future Iroms service I keep hearing about?" Also will it work with my new Ipod photo?

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