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btp2k2:
The other day, I went into one of those stores that sell stuff for game rooms...you know, with all the pool tables, and bars and stuff. I saw this really dorky looking arcade cabinet in the corner so...I had to get a closer look. This thing was hideous. It had no marquee, and resembled something you might get buried in. And although it looked reasonably well put together, the stuff it was put together with looked cheap...like a foot could go through it. They wanted over 4000 for it!

When I asked them why so much, the salesman gleefully explained to me that it comes with over 4000 different arcade games on it. I looked closer and they were selling these cabinets with MAME32 loaded with a full set of roms.

I thought that was a no no. Are they allowed to sell their cabinets with all the MAME roms on there?

Struck me as being odd.

Kaytrim:
That goes against the license that MAME has.

Scottk:
Not just the MAME license either...

Shipping all 4000 ROMS in it also breaks copyrights for all 4000 games, minus the 2 or 3
that have been released as freeware to the world.

I can't imagine that this company isn't just a mom-pop store, right?
No big company would want to deal with the lawsuits that could come outta this.

2PacMan:
There's a store like that here in Nebraska....Rec Room Plus i think it's called, and they also have a MAME machine loaded with roms for sale for close to $4000.00 as well.  I don't think they are a big chain store, but they have a couple locations around here.  I actually talked to the guy about it explaining to him that I believed it was illegal to sell this with the roms.  He told me "don't worry, we paid for the copyrights to these roms".  I knew he was full of BS, but I was just like 'whatever' and moved on. 

SavannahLion:
Send a message about what they have along with their physical address to MAMEDev along with a few choice copyright owners and be done with it. Let them handle it.

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