I'm creating an arcade cabinet for myself and thinking about selling this cabinet to others.
If I sell the cabinet, can I install MAME for free in it will my clients have to installed it themselves?
Thanks
Yeah well those "technical measures" is scaring me legally speaking because aren't this part of the copyright to play their game using THEIR technology (aka console or built-in emulator in the CD-Rom) and illegal to extract them out of their cartridge or CDs?cuavas wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:47 pm It's generally accepted that loading a ROM out of a software title you've purchased is "format shifting" in the same way as recording a TV show or ripping a CD to your computer. If you can defeat technical measures designed to prevent it and you aren't distributing copies to others without a license, it's acceptable.
By buying the CDs, I am forcing my cabinet owners to pay for the rights to play these games. So if Namco or Atari sues me for doing that despite me buying their CDs, it will show the gaming community that the industry is rotten and will simply fuel even more the illegal downloading of Roms.“Fair use is a fuzzy standard, not a rule,” Bambauer explained. He says he could imagine a few possible defensible scenarios. “If I own a copy of Super Mario World, I can play it whenever I want,” he notes, “but what I’d really like to do is play it on my phone or my laptop.” In this case, downloading a ROM could be legally defensible.