If this gets made, are they going to start going after Visual Pinball?
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Quoted from markmon:"going after"? Visual pinball isn't illegal.
Seems like with recreated tables using pinmame roms it is at least as copyright infringey as console game emulators, if not more so because of using actual table art etc.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for VP, just thinking that if someone comes out with an actual licensed PC product with the same tables, they might start looking funny at VP.
Quoted from markmon:Visual pinball is a framework. It doesn't use mame or copyrighted artwork. Mame is an emulator it doesn't do anything on its own. Neither of these things are illegal. The roms you download angers into pinmame are freely available unlike most cartridge roms. So there's no issue there. The I ly issue is with the tables that some users make that do use scans of copyrighted art. But those are not issues with visual pinball. They are separate tables distributed by separate parties than the vp software authors.
Okay, so when I say VP, take that as shorthand for "the reproduction tables and roms that everyone uses VP for". Obviously the framework itself is not a problem, but I think we would be lying to ourselves to suggest that the main point of the framework is something other than playing real pinball tables on our computers. That's how the lawyers will see it, anyway.
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