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cant seem to grasp why mame is 'illegal' for commercial use
jcterzin:
man, forget I asked! I feel like fists are about to be thrown. I'm not trying to step on toes, I just want to let people play arcade games!
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straight from the mouth of Jack Bauer, yes?
Ginsu Victim:
When I first asked about the tax sticker, that's all I did. ASKED. I said in that post that I didn't know how that worked. I was looking to be enlightened on the topic.
J.Max:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 03, 2010, 03:08:13 pm ---Nobody has sued us over it != it's legal
But considering the complete lack of response from the copyright holders, I doubt they care. Not being able to get a tax sticker because your cabinet has a computer in it? Are you kidding me? Some of the responses on this thread have been hilarious.
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That's why Nintendo sues everyone and everything...if you don't enforce a copyright, it becomes null and void after a certain period of time, regardless of the original copyright date.
Yes, some of the responses are pretty odd, to say the least...
CheffoJeffo:
Well, my point about the tax sticker is that he is far more likely to get caught without a tax sticker than he is having an illegal game (there are no MAME police, but there sure are tax enforcement folks!). I see 48-in-1 and 60-in-1 cabinets on route with tax stickers all the time, so I don't expect getting one to be too much of a problem. If he doesn't care about the tax sticker, why the hell would he care about using MAME ?
EDIT: It occurred to me that I should mention that there was a shipment of cocktail cabinets, presumably with xx-in-1 boards, seized by US Customs agents some months ago. Not particularly germane to the discussion at hand, but apparently, there are some folks watching. I don't know whatever happened to those cabinets -- anybody know ?
And why are you all missing the really disturbing part of this -- dude wants to butcher working classics !
WTF is wrong with you people ?
:afro:
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on February 03, 2010, 03:55:11 pm ---Well, my point about the tax sticker is that he is far more likely to get caught without a tax sticker than he is having an illegal game (there are no MAME police, but there sure are tax enforcement folks!). I see 48-in-1 and 60-in-1 cabinets on route with tax stickers all the time, so I don't expect getting one to be too much of a problem. If he doesn't care about the tax sticker, why the hell would he care about using MAME ?
And why are you all missing the really disturbing part of this -- dude wants to butcher working classics !
WTF is wrong with you people ?
:afro:
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