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Is selling MAME (commercially) illegal?
saint:
--- Quote from: Zebidee on October 12, 2007, 09:35:13 am ---
--- Quote from: saint on October 12, 2007, 08:56:37 am ---What Cheffo said :)
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Well, I guess as you are the boss then
the political decision would be for me to get off my soap box and go home. :blah: :blah: :blah:
cheers guys
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I don't think it's terribly burdensome to ask that people not post links on where to get these things. Talk about them until you're blue in the face, fine...
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: Zebidee on October 12, 2007, 06:57:29 am ---
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on October 12, 2007, 06:42:14 am ---Not really -- we have had that discussion eleventy times before as well and saint has asked us not to discuss where to find those boards.
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So .... i shouldn't mention the fact that those boards are all over ebay?
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No so much anymore...they have been taking them down. Aussies are still selling them though.
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: Zebidee on October 12, 2007, 08:03:51 am ---Come on now Cheffo, that is not what this is talking about and trying to tar me with that brush is, in itself, unworthy. Boonga is not an issue.
To stop me, or anyone else, talking about issues like this on a public forum would at best be limiting free speech (I think there is something in the US constitution about that), or at worst pandering to the interests of those that sell such multi-game machines (eg ebay and the companies that make/sell them).
I may be nieve, but I don't think that Saint is like that.
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Your first mistake here is that this IS NOT A PUBLIC FORUM but rather a PRIVATELY OWNED FORUM run by a man who has decided he is going to respect MAMEDevs wishes. If you don't like the rules he has set forth in HIS SANDBOX, don't let the door-knob hit you where the good lord split you...
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on October 12, 2007, 10:16:55 am ---No so much anymore...they have been taking them down. Aussies are still selling them though.
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In retrospect, perhaps this was the point that zebidee was trying to make -- for me, I see these boards pulled from eBay all the time the same way I see cabinets with MAME and ROMS pulled. Maybe he is not seeing that kind of consistency where he is and THAT is the double standard that he is talking about (where I took his statement to be referring to BYOAC and his sarcasm at being directed at saint's request).
:dunno
Zebidee:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on October 12, 2007, 10:24:24 am ---
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on October 12, 2007, 10:16:55 am ---No so much anymore...they have been taking them down. Aussies are still selling them though.
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In retrospect, perhaps this was the point that zebidee was trying to make -- for me, I see these boards pulled from eBay all the time the same way I see cabinets with MAME and ROMS pulled. Maybe he is not seeing that kind of consistency where he is and THAT is the double standard that he is talking about (where I took his statement to be referring to BYOAC and his sarcasm at being directed at saint's request).
:dunno
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Cheffo is spot on - thanks for making the effort to understand. :cheers:
Now, regarding some other people who are upset about a different issue. This forum is privately owned, but it is still used to broadcast in a public medium (the Internet). That is what makes it public. In the same way as the New York Times is a medium for public communication, even though it is privately owned.
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