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spacies:
 :notworthy: to Saint.

I dont believe in God, not until he shows me his face. If there is an afterlife, I just hope it is has roms!

 :P

RobotronNut:

--- Quote from: saint on September 18, 2006, 10:47:31 pm ---I have purchased every arcade compilation available for the PC that I'm aware of.

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do you play these compilations directly, or do you play them through mame, as a "fair use" of the copyrighted material in the compilations you've purchased?

Haze:
My point is simple.  You should not be using those multi-game boards, nor recommending them.  They're just as bad (actually worse IMO because they're set up for arcade use) than people selling ROMs, MAME Cabs etc. on ebay or whatever else.

If you're knowingly purchasing the things, and using them, making a profit with them, taking money from people via them thus creating a market for them then you ARE the bad guys.

If nobody purchased the boards, and suppliers were flooded with them then they wouldn't buy additional ones, the market would be gone.

It's impossible to operate those boards legally in any location.  We very specifically do NOT want MAME being used for commercial purposes.

spacies:

--- Quote from: Haze on September 19, 2006, 02:58:03 am ---.  We very specifically do NOT want MAME being used for commercial purposes.

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I fully understand where you guys are coming from.
I have NOT given out website adresses for the PCBs and wont be doing so anytime soon.

I am saying these are out there but you clearly know that.

But maybe MAME should email China and Japan and explain it to them that what they are doing is illegal. Or maybe you should look in your own back yard first as I could find 10 webistes selling MAME machines in the USA in 0.13 seconds using Google. Theres even one with Celebs playing them!

I am sorry if I have come across the wrong way.
I love what you guys have done but it has been exploited while you were sleeping.

Also, if we didn't have a product to buy in the first place then this wouldn't be a problem. Not the other way around.
You stop the source you stop the problem. Because if the market was flooded then the price would drop and even more people would buy them.


Haze:
We are aware that it is a problem.  Just because we're aware of something doesn't mean it's easy for us to stop it.  If things were that simple there wouldn't be any drugs problems anywhere in the world, and you'd never have to worry about getting shot on the street etc.

Please remember that we work on MAME mostly because we enjoy working on it.  We don't get paid for it, we don't have money to try and track down whoever is producing these things in China etc.   What we can do is inform anybody who is using them that they shouldn't be using them.  I'm sure one day MAME will end up having to emulate them to document that they existed, but it's sad to see them in operation.

You guys gave Ultracade a lot of stick here without actually ever proving that it was MAME.  The majority of these Chinese/HK/Taiwan things are KNOWN to be MAME.

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