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    • simonsterS
      simonster
      last edited by simonster

      The North East Retro Gaming Show's response was "You need to take this up with Pixel Arcades. Your fight is with them."

      Basically, I get the feeling that they are of the opinion Pixel Arcades are funding their event and therefore don't want to know about it.

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      • UDb23U
        UDb23 @simonster
        last edited by

        @simonster seems so.

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        • BuZzB
          BuZz administrators
          last edited by BuZz

          https://twitter.com/RetroPieProject/status/856530821934665729

          Their twitter account now seems removed. A clear conscience then!

          Their website is hosted on godaddy

          host pixelarcades.co.uk
          pixelarcades.co.uk has address 160.153.136.1
          

          Feel fee to email abuse [at] godaddy.com to let them know they have a customer selling systems with 26,000 pirated games on (provide a link to a page as evidence). They also sell retropie (can tell from some screenshots I saw) but don't mention that on their site as far as I can see.

          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          • UDb23U
            UDb23 @BuZz
            last edited by

            @BuZz They show "how to" videos for Retropie on their facebook page... so they are using Retropie.

            What about creating an "official" standard text that any Retropie forum users can use to send (read submerge) by e-mail to people like these ?

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            • simonsterS
              simonster
              last edited by

              I've emailed godaddy and Paypal (given that's who process their payments) and we'll see what happens.

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              • herb_fargusH
                herb_fargus administrators @simonster
                last edited by

                @simonster i was thinking of throwing a convention for the war against drugs, in order to fundraise I figured we could just sell drugs to fund it.

                If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                • BuZzB
                  BuZz administrators @simonster
                  last edited by

                  @simonster sorry it should have been [at] godaddy.com btw

                  To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                  • simonsterS
                    simonster @BuZz
                    last edited by

                    Thanks @BuZz , I worked it out anyway.

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                    • BuZzB
                      BuZz administrators
                      last edited by BuZz

                      I wrote an email to the event.

                      Regarding your sponsorship by Pixel Arcades:

                      I heard you replied to a user who already emailed you:
                      "You need to take this up with Pixel Arcades. Your fight is with them."

                      It is disappointing to hear you don't mind about being sponsored by a
                      company who profits from selling other peoples work (RetroPie with
                      thousands of copyrighted games). This damages our reputation and
                      threatens the project.

                      An event funded by Piracy - not a good image for a Retro Gaming event.

                      Looks like we may need to highlight this on our website, as well as
                      twitter feed - Not sure that will be the press you want though. (we
                      mentioned it on twitter already -
                      https://twitter.com/RetroPieProject/status/856530821934665729) - they
                      were quick to shut off the twitter account.

                      I would recommend you separate yourselves from this company - It's a bad
                      association for emulation and exactly the sort of thing that gets
                      emulation projects closed down. People profiting from selling ROMs are
                      no better than someone selling pirated DVDs down the market.

                      I suspect it's more than them being sponsored by some 3rd party company. Says on the website about machines being "for sale" after, so I wonder if they quite closely linked etc. Perhaps they are actually helping run the event or maybe it's the same people.

                      It's a shame that people feel the need to profit on the work of others. If they want to sell arcade machines - fine. No need to include copyrighted games. It's pretty obvious why they do - to add value - to make more money.

                      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                      • simonsterS
                        simonster
                        last edited by

                        I take it that you've heard nothing further @BuZz ?

                        I had another look at their contact page and on a whim copied and pasted their contact number (a mobile phone) in to Google. It returned another company: "The derwent slate plate company" and the name Ross Pennington on their contact page with the same mobile number.

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                        • fellegF
                          felleg
                          last edited by felleg

                          Looks like they removed the product listing from their website. I can't find in anymore, and the link from google returns an error 404. (edit: i removed the link)

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                          • simonsterS
                            simonster
                            last edited by

                            @felleg could you remove the link please, we don't want to push traffic in the direction of the website.

                            They still have a number of other products for sale including the RetroPie converted classic consoles SNES, Playstation, etc.

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                            • BuZzB
                              BuZz administrators @simonster
                              last edited by

                              @simonster i edited the link.

                              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                              • fellegF
                                felleg @simonster
                                last edited by

                                @simonster sorry, done.

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                                • humblepiH
                                  humblepi
                                  last edited by

                                  Why not approach this from another direction and point those with serious clout like Nintendo or Sony in their direction?

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                                  • mattrixkM
                                    mattrixk @humblepi
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                                    @humblepi If you aim the T-Rex at something you want them to eat, there's nothing stopping them from eating you afterwards.

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