Selling UAE is this leagle?

[bloodmoney]

Found this on ebay, looks shady to me.

UAE and games

[odin]

Jesus, 13 quid for a CD-R with some ADFs and UAE? And those ADFs and Kickstart images most certainly will not be licensed.

[bloodmoney]

I would report this to ebay but I can't find how to do it anywhere on the site.

[Argo]

There is a "Report this item" link at the bottom of the page.

[CaptChaos]

Amiga Forever have been selling WinUae for years..  

[LoadWB]

The reporting system is not completely friendly to this kind of violation.  The best match I can come up with is "unauthorized multi-game" or something of that nature.

Is there a vigilante group out there which monitors for this type of transgression?  Anyone interested in coordinating or participating in one?

[bloodmoney]

Thanks it's been reported for what its worth.

[LoadWB]

Three hours to go... I doubt eBay will yank it before this guy makes his money.

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[Piru]

Selling UAE is legal. Selling illegal copies of games and Kickstart ROM images is not.

[Raffaele]

@ CaptChaos:

by CaptChaos on 2006/11/14 6:45:17

Amiga Forever have been selling WinUae for years..

Hello Captain... (he cries: Dah,Daradahhh!)

When you buy Amiga Forever you pay the fees for licenced versions of Amiga Kickstarts and OS, and some other sofware included in it.

AFAIK they got a licence to include also UAE in their distro.

[Piru]

@Raffaele

AFAIK they got a licence to include also UAE in their distro.

(Win)UAE is GPL, you can sell it without any further licensing.

[LoadWB]

FWIW, this was my question to him:

Item: Amiga Emulator WinUAE + 237 Classic Games eg GAUNTLET (280045390981)
This message was sent while the listing was active.
loadwb is a potential buyer.
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Does this CD include the necessary ROM files?

And this is his response:

Item: Amiga Emulator WinUAE + 237 Classic Games eg GAUNTLET (280045390981)
This message was sent while the listing was active.
mogant0 is the seller.
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yep

So, it's quite evident to me that, other software not withstanding, he is selling illegal copies of the Amiga Kickstart ROM(s).

EDIT: When I just looked, the listing is shown as removed.

[WOWZER]

Good Job. Its no longer listed on ebay, or at least on the link you provided.

[_ThEcRoW]

And the whining goes on and on and on.....

[LoadWB]

Yeah, I noticed you started already.  Any chance you could take that elsewhere?