Reporting of illegal rom downloads using RetroPie

detron

@Floob said in Reporting of illegal rom downloads using RetroPie:

On an associated topic, perhaps its worth incentivising those who want to support the RetroPie project properly, they could get a membership tag indicating they have donated or similar?

I like the tag idea, and I am all for supporting RetroPie properly.
also, if RetroPie had a swag shop, I would probably buy items from there too, you know little items such as stickers and lanyards (heck, I would buy ink pens or pencils), or larger items such as maybe a RetroPie custom Raspberry Pi case.

cyperghost

@detron said in Reporting of illegal rom downloads using RetroPie:

@Floob said in Reporting of illegal rom downloads using RetroPie:

On an associated topic, perhaps its worth incentivising those who want to support the RetroPie project properly, they could get a membership tag indicating they have donated or similar?

I like the tag idea, and I am all for supporting RetroPie properly.
also, if RetroPie had a swag shop, I would probably buy items from there too, you know little items such as stickers and lanyards (heck, I would buy ink pens or pencils), or larger items such as maybe a RetroPie custom Raspberry Pi case.

That may be the next step to do! Why not sale a "Proved member!" serial number bundeled to the Raspberry Pis unique hardware serial? The key is or can be added to boot/config.txt/in the key ProvedMember=1234567890ABCDEF
So the money is not associated to Libretro or EmulationStation but for RetroPie as forum member.... and then... you can make a SplashScreen like "Please take care about copyright...."

Zigurana

We could bake the non-commercial message into the ES splash-screen, which is a codified VSG. This might make it sufficiently difficult for the (lazy) proviteers to remove it.
At the same time, we could have @Rookervik design a new splash screen when entering the system, the old ES one is getting, well, old.

BuZz

I don't want any security measures in RetroPie-Setup and I don't think things like that would help (See DRM, and anti piracy stuff in software).

If someone removes the small message we display, so be it - and as RetroPie-Setup is GPL, they can do that.

I mostly just try and ignore those that use RetroPie to make a quick profit. It's not worth the hassle. We can just refuse to support those that are.

We did have a new splash btw, but there were some other things that needed sorting (the fade, so we don't flash back to white with our darker boot splash). Things like this are not a high priority though (for example I have had BBC Micro support on my todo list for some time - and would rather work on that)

lilbud

@BuZz Do you mean a darker variant of this?

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BuZz

Yep. There may have been other changes also. Can't remember.

HoraceAndSpider

Hi
Just reading through this, I guess there is no standard “one place” for reporting the RetroPie infringement?

I don’t Know of the team having a FaceBook presence so I would assume this is not related to the project here?

https://www.facebook.com/customisable/

It is just with the use of the logo there it makes it look legit and official, which I even thought it was but then I noticed there were some sales there also, which gave me doubts.

If you have no presence on FB at all, I would recommend you have one, if nothing else just to give users a place to hit “like” before being redirected here!!

herb_fargus

@horaceandspider Facebook is rubbish.

They don't respond at all to any requests, perhaps once trademarks are sorted there will be room for recompense.

HoraceAndSpider

As I understood the logo etc is all copyrighted now? Surely this might be enough to get pages such as the above taken down?

Whilst I agree it’s no place to have to “proper” presence, I hate to see RetroPie being abused in this way and people pretending to be official when they are not.

BuZz

@horaceandspider We don't have the USA trademark sorted yet. Logo is released under a copy left licence, and their usage breaks this (since they are using it in a way to look like us). Not that it matters anyway, since my last reports to facebook went nowhere. After receiving an initial email, my replies with information regarding our licences etc got ignored.

HoraceAndSpider

@buzz that’s sad to hear.

Tho guy who appears to be running this page is from the U.K. and posting this on the Retro games forever Group...

Maybe I would care less of the guy was such and obnoxious **** :/