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Ultracade Cabinet Founder Faces Federal Fraud Charges
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07/12/09
This guy had it coming for quite some time.
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07/11/09
Where the problem lies is Mr. Foley made copies of the ROM packs, brought them home with him after he was fired from the company, and sold pirated copies of those ROM packs on eBay, quite illegally.
UltraCade never did anything wrong, and Mr. Foley (as far as we know) never did anything wrong while he was still working at UltraCade (aside from taking the ROM packs home with him)
07/11/09
Although the ROMs were licensed from legitimate companies, the code emulating them, supposedly written by Foley, had been found (at one point in time) to incorporate parts of the MAME source, without permission.
Also, there's the whole trying to steal the MAME trademark thing.
Neither of those two things have anything to do with this current case, but seriously, read up on him... He's a devious bastard.
07/12/09
If I'm Global VR, I'm PISSED.
07/12/09
As another commenter said... Karma's a bitch.
07/11/09
Firstly, Foley has been accused, several times, of stealing code from MAME to use in the Ultracade software.
Secondly, several years back in 2005, tired of hobbyists building MAME-compatible cabs and selling them via Ebay in direct competition to his Ultracade cabs, he tried to trademark the MAME name and logo, neither of which he owned, so that he could get the hobbyist cabs removed.
ubersite.com
aarongiles.com
Thankfully the team who are actually behind MAME managed to get the trademark themselves.
07/11/09
Seems to be not well thought out beyond "I can make copies of games, dude!"
"Cool! Now we can play everything for free!"
"Wait! Why not sell them and make a profit?"
"Good idea! Pass the bong!"
Not saying anything against the Chronic. But you shouldn't think your hideas are great once you sober up.
Most things I think of baked are pretty goddamn stupid once I'm sober.
07/11/09
"You see, on these disks we have frozen in time
The creativity of someone's mind
Do you think, that because, with a flick of a key
You can copy that game, that the work is free
This creativity, we protect it by law
We value so highly, what the mind's eye saw
Don't copy! Don't copy that floppy!"
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