How expensive are they? Unless your name is Bill Gates I don't think you can buy them
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04-26-2014, 08:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2014, 08:24 AM by kinkinkijkin.)
Well, some cabinets are really inexpensive ($100 USD comes to mind, but it might not be correct), and those are also the ones that won't take a decade of searching to be able to buy.
in a perfect world we would all be piles of sand with no ability to form coherent bodies of body
04-26-2014, 08:25 AM
Well, I read somewhere that they can cost up to 2000 USD, without the shipping costs.
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04-26-2014, 08:36 AM
Depending on the cabinet, of course. You find a common cabinet and a nice seller, you can easily get one for much cheaper.
in a perfect world we would all be piles of sand with no ability to form coherent bodies of body
And you can potentially get them cheaper, as you just need the board, and it doesn't even need to be working. You hardly need to be a billionaire to buy them.
04-26-2014, 10:21 AM
Too bad most countries can't/don't have sensible copyright laws. Where was it that you're living now delroth?
It's not that I want free stuff, but I've been involved in the discussion about copyright since I was a teen. I feel very invested in any copyright system, being an author myself, but culturally, most systems are toxic to preserving our current works. Though it's not in accordance with the law, MAME and Archive.org's efforts are something I wish were allowed. It's not enough that a handful of people manage to dump their games; that really doesn't "preserve" the experience or the game since only a limited number of people will ever have access to it; that limits research and commentary about a game. I would be all for something like a library for games that people could check in and out. Treating games like any other media (books, movies, music) would be a first good step. And enough of soapbox... 04-26-2014, 10:57 AM
That would be Switzerland.
Quote: but culturally, most systems are toxic to preserving our current works.Yeah, that's the entire point of copyright. 04-26-2014, 11:10 AM
The purpose of copyright is to prop up industries which incompatible with human rights and technological freedom. It does so by violating human rights and destroying technological freedom, including free speech and privacy, placing profit over the public's rights.
04-26-2014, 09:07 PM
(04-26-2014, 10:21 AM)Shonumi Wrote: Too bad most countries can't/don't have sensible copyright laws. Where was it that you're living now delroth? Sensible copyright laws wouldn't allow resharing copyrighted content in violation of its license, so that wouldn't change the issue of redistributing ROMs and things like that. Switzerland allows (or rather, does not disallow) downloading copyrighted content as long as you don't share it with other people - and I think this makes sense because the way to improve the copyright situation is not to chase people who download stuff, it's to remove the source of this content (people who share). |
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