On Monday 05 January 2004 11:21, smf wrote: > It's insulting to treat MAME like a warez tool. It's not like anyone even > bothered to dump the roms correctly and decrypt them, more neorage > hack/bootleg rubbish. If you want to do it yourself or talk about it in a > chat room then thats up to you, but posting here is really not a good > thing.
Although I feel that the 3 years is arbitrary, and probably has more to do with keeping (x)mame out of the spotlight than with copyright law (if you have the right to a backup copy: you do so independent of the age; if you don't: you're breaking the law), I do feel you make a very valid point here: (x)mame to me is about preserving and studying the games/hardware of the past. If you don't do this properly, please do it somewhere else. I'm sure there's nothing in the (x)mame license about starting your own spin-off with your own mailinglist that _does_ support these games or just to create your own mailinglist for features like these. Just don't be surprised if you get an email from a copyright lawyer. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
