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| blueMSX for sale!! for only $9.99 with pirated roms and illegal BIOSes!
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Vampier
msx addict
Posts: 493 |  Posted: September 01 2007, 18:15 |
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dvik
msx master
Posts: 1302 | Posted: September 01 2007, 19:48 |
Anyone have some advice what to do (from my part that is)?
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wolf_
msx legend
Posts: 4658 | Posted: September 01 2007, 19:56 |
*If* that page works at all, it's dead-slow here.. Oo
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wolf_
msx legend
Posts: 4658 | Posted: September 01 2007, 20:15 |
Ok, seen it now. Well, regarding the games, I guess there's not much for you to do. It's for some games -perhaps- more a Bazix case, even. But if you have a BlueMSX EULA somewhere in which you state that the end user can't sell BlueMSX then you have a case. Contacting ebay won't hurt I guess..  |
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Vincent van Dam
msx addict
Posts: 372 | Posted: September 01 2007, 20:17 |
I noticed this one too. I think the only thing that you can do is contact ebay to remove it. Not sure if you have included anything about reselling the emulator in the license.
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wolf_
msx legend
Posts: 4658 | Posted: September 01 2007, 20:25 |
Well, trickery... but is Vampier's title one that came from the ebay ad? In case of a clash between dvik and the ebay user who placed the ad, the user may bring on that he wasn't selling BlueMSX, only the games, and that BlueMSX came as a free bonus. He may be assuming that selling an emulator is tricky, but that selling games is safe as they're all old aged games from long-gone companies.
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hap
msx addict
Posts: 465 | Posted: September 01 2007, 20:26 |
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| *If* that page works at all, it's dead-slow here.. Oo
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Same here, it's a KPN problem (several other sites aren't working well either).
GPL allows software to be sold. If you try to stop the seller, he'll probably claim he's selling the CD + his effort for collecting the files+burning them on the CD. Selling those games and BIOS ROMs is illegal though, if you notify eBay, they'll most likely remove his auctions. |
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Vampier
msx addict
Posts: 493 | Posted: September 01 2007, 23:35 |
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Bart
msx professional
Posts: 646 | Posted: September 01 2007, 23:57 |
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| Anyone have some advice what to do (from my part that is)?
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You could send a Electronic Notice of Infringement to VERO at Ebay, but with only three hours left the auction will end before Ebay will respond. If you'd like to protect BlueMSX from being sold at Ebay you should register yourself with Ebay for the VeRO program as the IP owner of BlueMSX.
//edit: where the f*ck did my avatar go?  |
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dvik
msx master
Posts: 1302 | Posted: September 02 2007, 09:05 |
The auction seems to have ended now. Its not so much about distribution and sales of the emulator that I don't like but since Bazix stated their policy about distributing games (the msx mbox package for example) I don't want blueMSX to appear in these type of bundles.
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Vampier
msx addict
Posts: 493 | Posted: September 02 2007, 09:30 |
I filed a complaint with ebay, it seems they closed all auctions. on top of that I sent the guy a nice little e-mail 
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| I will be monitoring your e-bay profile and I will consult with my legal adviser. Make no mistake about it I will prosecute you to the fullest extend of the law.
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Vampier
msx addict
Posts: 493 | Posted: September 02 2007, 18:02 |
I received a message back from Retro gaming:
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| Dear Patrick, thanks for your email. Please accept my apologies if I have infringed on any copyright. I did not claim to own any copyright on my listing, and advertised that what I was offering was freely available to obtain online, of which you are no doubt aware, which is how I obtained the data myself.
I can assure I did not set out to make any real profit from the listing, and following your email, I read the forum you attached, together with further information contained on the website (and others) and you have my assurance that of course I will cease to list this item.
If you require any further information from myself, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Ian.
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I gues we're close enough on the emu scene to detect stuff like this. I'll leave this as is. |
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manuel
msx guru
Posts: 3380 | Posted: September 02 2007, 22:48 |
FYI, it's completely legal and allowed by the license of blueMSX and C-BIOS to sell the software (in any form, except for the GPL parts of blueMSX which needs source code included, AFAIK), under the conditions of the BSD license. But it's of course not legal to sell the proprietary software that is included in the bundle.
Whether it is nice to do, is another question.
Anyway, sometimes it is. E.g., you can buy Debian cd's/dvd's and they may include openMSX and C-BIOS.
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Vampier
msx addict
Posts: 493 | Posted: September 03 2007, 06:51 |
I believe I need to change the license on the trainers if this is the case.
Quibus je hebt zojuist de poten onder mijn stoel uitgezaagd.... bedankt.  |
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dvik
msx master
Posts: 1302 | Posted: September 03 2007, 07:14 |
@manuel, its legal to grab the source code of blueMSX from the CVS, build it and distribute it. Its actually not legal to distribute the binary and all the support files for commercial use. They don't have GPL license. You can see the license agreement in the about dialog of the emulator.
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