![]() No one is out of a Nucore system if someone downloads Pinbox, especially when it's impossible to buy it from the creator. Stealing is when you take something from the owner and they no longer have it. Which ultimately *does* impact NuCore.Īgain with this word stealing. The people at nucore are unimpacted either way whether you fix the board, buy a new board, or use pinbox in this case.Įxcept, in the cases where you have a product like NuCore that eventually will be back, if you say "Okay, so NuCore isn't available now, I'm going to pirate Pinbox instead of fixing my board," you effectively have made it so that whatever happens to the game in the future, you're going to continue to use the warez version of the OS and not the legit one.Įffectively, because you are replacing something that isn't currently available with the same solution illegally, you are removing the future market for that particular item. In this case where we agree that there is no sale and never will be, you may as well use pinbox as it harms no one. ![]() In case of ip theft, the case can be made that the loss is a sale. Theft requires the owner of an item to have a loss - the stolen item. In that case, I would argue that using pinbox is *not* theft. But I'm afraid you guys are responsible for your situation. By the way, several of us would be happy to use pinbox and pay you for the nucore. If williams or whomever was preventing sale due to the pinbox lawsuit, you could still sell your product without ROMs and let the users figure that out. Second, this lawsuit should have nothing to do with whether or not the product is being sold. For we can now use pinbox while you grind your wheels on court. First the release of pinbox didn't "ruin it for everyone". In the meantime please respect our IP and be patient: NUCORE WILL RETURN." We cannot discuss the details of the case but will provide periodic updates here on our site. This person stole our copyrighted software and the copyrighted ROMs. We paid Wayne, Gene and Rick a licensing fee for the right to do this. We have hundreds of paying customers who paid their hard earned money. We spent thousands of hours on this product. Federal lawsuits take time and we need to clean up the mess before doing anything else. It is our intention to bring this person to justice and to release a future version of Nucore with new features. Two weeks later, the person in the lawsuit (master geek) released Pinbox and ruined it for everyone. In July of 2013, legal documents were drawn up to allow us to continue to produce Nucore. We’ve been busy servicing all of our paying Nucore clients. And, if your logic that the product was pulled because sales weren't what were expected, then it this isn't the scenario that improves that equation. Guess what? The Nucore guys just devalued their product because there are fewer machines, thus fewer sales, available. Individuals will part them out for what value they can get and dump the rest. You know what will happen? Ops will trash them. If there are pin2000 machines that are broken and there is no viable fix available, no one is going to keep these bricks around. It also shows the underlying arrogance of those involved (be it Nucore, PPS, or whomever). No to be a dick, but your whole premise is ridiculous. If the machine is broken, and that is the fix, you would have paid for it. This does not suddenly entitle you to decide their work isn't moving fast enough so you should just take it.įinally, you saying that it doesn't equate to a sale is just silly. I think I'd feel different if Williams developed the solution to fix their own machines with and then pulled it as a solution, but seriously - you're talking about a couple of guys that spent a ton of time and effort developing a solution that worked, the sales of it weren't what they had hoped so they stopped producing it for a time. Your logic shouldn't be that since a solution exists, even if it blatantly rips off people who had developed it, you should be open to using it because you want to fix your machine isn't really fair. If Pinbox did not exist, please explain how you could fix your machine in a couple weeks.
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