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are 39 in 1 boards illegal to have on location ?

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leapinlew:

--- Quote from: DaveMMR on March 01, 2008, 11:56:42 am ---I don't know why there's debate about this.   The original question was about their legality in a public location.  The answer is "yes".  It wasn't "will I get caught?", "is it moral?" or anything else like that. 

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 :cheers:

Jdurg:
Exactly.  All it takes is for someone running one of these illegal boards to piss off the wrong person and that person can bring the authorities down on them.  If they want to bust you for something but they don't have the evidence they need, they could always nab you for the illegal arcade board.

Whether they will do that or not isn't the debate here.  It's whether it is illegal or not to run one of these boards for profit. 

The same discussion and argument can be made for using illegal drugs.  Cops know certain people who do it all the time, and in some cases they even watch people doing it and don't do a thing about it.  The moment they decide that they want to get "even" with someone for something, or they are just in a bad mood, those people who thought they could get away with it wind up under arrest.

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: Jdurg on March 01, 2008, 01:52:59 pm ---Exactly.  All it takes is for someone running one of these illegal boards to piss off the wrong person and that person can bring the authorities down on them.  If they want to bust you for something but they don't have the evidence they need, they could always nab you for the illegal arcade board.

Whether they will do that or not isn't the debate here.  It's whether it is illegal or not to run one of these boards for profit. 

The same discussion and argument can be made for using illegal drugs.  Cops know certain people who do it all the time, and in some cases they even watch people doing it and don't do a thing about it.  The moment they decide that they want to get "even" with someone for something, or they are just in a bad mood, those people who thought they could get away with it wind up under arrest.

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I know what your saying, but your examples are a little off.

What authorities would someone call? I mean, we all know it's illegal, but what spacie is saying - who's going to make the bust? Illegal drugs, sure cops. Illegal 48-n-1 at the laundramat? Now what?

Jdurg:
Depending on the state, it could be the state's Attorney General who would shut it down and issue fines in order to fatten the state's wallet.

MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 01, 2008, 02:31:27 pm ---I know what your saying, but your examples are a little off.

What authorities would someone call? I mean, we all know it's illegal, but what spacie is saying - who's going to make the bust? Illegal drugs, sure cops. Illegal 48-n-1 at the laundramat? Now what?

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No one is going to bust you. The owner of the copyright(s) can sue you and the court can determine if you violated the copyright(s) or not, and if so, what the penalty is.

The cops can't determine whether you violated the copyright(s) or not, nor to what extent the copyright(s) has/have been violated. Imagine the blank and confused stare you would get from the average cop if you went down to the station with a stack of arcade boardsets and asked him which of them were originals and which of them were bootlegs.

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