Asshole blatantly selling emulators and ROMS on eBay

[fishsandwich]

Check this out...

http://shop.ebay.com/ukderbydave/m.h...id=p4340.l2562

Lots of different listings... pick your poison!


emulators and roms for

MAME
SNES
Amiga
Genesis
2600
5200
7800
NES
SMS



I love this bit...

"Note to eBay:
This collection only contains material from the public domain, and is freely available on the internet. No copyright material is included."





Asshole



!

[FxMercenary]

I guess people are just paying him to do all the legwork. judging by his feedback, he has sold 100s of copies. If you want, report him to Sega/Atari/Nintendo and let them sue the crap out of him.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I've sent a message to MAMEDev's legal team.

[Smashed Brother]

I let the fine people over at the Lavalit BOR forums know about this douche, too.

[Zama]

Check this out...

http://shop.ebay.com/ukderbydave/m.h...id=p4340.l2562

Lots of different listings... pick your poison!


emulators and roms for

MAME
SNES
Amiga
Genesis
2600
5200
7800
NES
SMS



I love this bit...

"Note to eBay:
This collection only contains material from the public domain, and is freely available on the internet. No copyright material is included."





Asshole



!

My god, what a douche. It's just as worse as someone selling printed and digital copies of the FAQs from Gamefaqs

[Icarus Moonsight]

He is lying in that little note to eBay. The Public Domain roms for MAME (if there is any) would not require 6 DVDs to burn. I don't begrudge someone selling a service like disk burning and binary corralling (sometimes the time saved is worth it), but the implicit dishonesty rather is what rubs my rhubarb.

[Kitsune Sniper]

My god, what a douche. It's just as worse as someone selling printed and digital copies of the FAQs from Gamefaqs

Or those guys that sell freeware software.

[APE992]

Anyone smart enough to know what they're looking at but dumb enough to buy it deserves what they get.

I'd imagine shortly after they figure out what they just paid for the guy will be quickly banned from eBay.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Anyone smart enough to know what they're looking at but dumb enough to buy it deserves what they get.

I'd imagine shortly after they figure out what they just paid for the guy will be quickly banned from eBay.

Look at his feedback.

He's been running this scheme for a while.

[APE992]

Look at his feedback.

He's been running this scheme for a while.

His buyers are smart enough to know what they're getting but infinitely too stupid to realize they can get it for free.

A fool and his money are soon parted. As much as I hate this type of seller I have to hand it to him for fleecing so damned many people.

[WoodyXP]

I'm not condoning the seller's actions, but there are some poor souls out there who still have a 56k connection. They could benefit from this.

[Oobgarm]

but the implicit dishonesty rather is what rubs my rhubarb.

A word of advice, never rub another man's rhubarb.

[punkoffgirl]

I love this bit...

"Note to eBay:
This collection only contains material from the public domain, and is freely available on the internet. No copyright material is included."

Ebay says:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/public-domain.html
Policy overview

Before you sell any media, such as music, movies, or photos, you're responsible for finding out if the media you're planning to sell contains content that's protected by copyright. If it is, be sure to follow the guidelines in our copyright basics policy.
Any media that are no longer protected by copyright are sometimes described as having entered the public domain. To find out more about public domain media, see the U.S. Copyright Office website.
You can describe the content offered in your eBay listing as having entered the public domain as long as you meet both of these requirements:

• You've checked to make sure the content is in fact in the public domain, and
  
• Your listing includes both of the following details:
  - The date (day, month, and year) the media was first created or released
  
  - The date (day, month, and year) it became part of the public domain
  

However, we don't allow sellers to describe content as having entered into the public domain if the content was created or released in 1972 or later.
Make sure your listing follows these guidelines. If it doesn't, it may be removed, and you may be subject to a range of other actions, including limits of your buying and selling privileges and suspension of your account.
If you see listings that offer unauthorized copies of media, please report it to us.

[Damaramu]

What a scumbag. I did my part and reported each of his auction listings. Anyone else follow suit?

[megasdkirby]

What a scumbag. I did my part and reported each of his auction listings. Anyone else follow suit?

I did, but I highly doubt eBay will do anything.

[Icarus Moonsight]

A word of advice, never rub another man's rhubarb.

Truth be my lady.

[Griking]

I've sent a message to MAMEDev's legal team.

Mamedev doesn't hold the rights to the games that they release.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Not the issue. It's a violation of their user agreement to distribute emulator and ROMs together.

[dillbeme]

Seriously, what a douche! I guess we'll see what happens, whether if he has a lawsuit towards him or if eBay terminates him. I highly doubt that eBay would terminate him.

[Griking]

Sort of an honor among thieves huh?