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MAME machine legalities
Malenko:
MAME is legal, just as there are legal ways to use it, there are illegal ways to use it.
You cannot use MAME to make money in anyway.
http://mamedev.org/romsfaq.html
http://mamedev.org/license.html
http://mamedev.org/about.html
actually just read all of mamedev.org
FrizzleFried:
Oh I never suggested MAME was legal in a commercial setting.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 10, 2007, 05:40:41 pm ---It's not legal, period.
--- End quote ---
Sorry, MAME is legal in a noncommercial setting. You're just baiting at this point.
Want a solid argument? Forget Nintendo's website, start citing specific court cases and law. Do the research and don't depend on the FUD spread around by both sides. The lines differientating what is and isn't legal are not where you think they are.
sac01:
errr......But MAME itself has no roms, it mearly emulates hardware. I don't see how you can make a point of saying the software companys have mearly decided it's not profitable to sue the mame team? There is no law suit legally possible here that I can see. You seem to be mixing the fact that while mame can be used to run illegal copys of roms, the emulator itself is just that, an emulator, emulating cpu's and chipsets, not software, not programs. I beleive that when a chip developer (lets say Motorola) takes out a copyright on something like a 68000 proc. I don't think the copyright protects them from someone developing software to emulate the chip.
I can buy a IC legally that might be use to descramble cable tv if installed into a cable box...but the chip itself is legal, and if I own the cable box and not rent, I can even legally install it into the box....IT becomes illegal as soon as I use it to view a channel I havn't paid for.
ahofle:
If that were true then people would not have been raided recently for merely distributing/installing modchips (which include no illegal software).
Anyway, here is one of the many threads where this has already been discussed:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=60798.0
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