Wouldn't surprise me that this is an interim thing with WMS. If the rights are subject to re-negotiation soon then I could see them tightening their belts just to make the package their offering look more attractive for now.
That would be the most likely scenario.
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While this sounds bad, and is for Astill, if it means that WMS is serious about getting back its pinball rights, in order to resell them to someone more 'worthy' or to license it themselves, then this may be a good thing in the long run.
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I think we should start a petition, and demand that if Williams wants to exert their muscle with regards to their ROM copyrights, that they either offer the service themselves, or authorize/license third parties to do it.
Considering hobbyists don't often use "service technicians" to perform maintenance or upgrade their machines, and there are no Williams Factory training programs by which to create any "service technicians", it's an entirely outmoded way of thinking.
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Hi it was uninvited , i went to my computer and e bay said i had 147 auctions cancelled , i still have some williams items but i have 3 days to take them down voluntarily and i had to take a tutorial from ebay to access my account.
Oh wow.. were they removed using the VeRO program? Also, does it say who filed the complaint? Ebay told me it was "Mr. Pinball Australia P/L" who canceled my auctions..
is your Ebay account suspended now? That's a lot of removals!
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Ouch, that's humiliating. It's like being forced to take sensitivity training or something.
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I wonder if they will do anything about Marco and other pinball parts Suppliers selling ROM copies.
I'm guessing that they will. Attacking the ebay sellers is probably the surprise attack first strike in the upcoming war on pinball fans. They probably figure that the ebay sellers are the low hanging fruit. It's easy to get those auctions taken down since ebay just does what they're told by lawyers.
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Oh wow.. were they removed using the VeRO program? Also, does it say who filed the complaint? Ebay told me it was "Mr. Pinball Australia P/L" who canceled my auctions..
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