I give you something academic and you have confirmed my earlier suspicion that you dont comprehend things very well.
The White Paper specifically talks about emulating old redundant hardware as software in the migration of retro systems to newer computers and operating software.
It is retro gamers that are preserving old video games not the industry that developed these games.
Perhaps the example of Crazy Otto is relevant with this fact in mind.
AFAIK there was more than one Crazy Otto PCB made. Maybe one will turn up and someone will dump the roms.
Bizimonki you are a dumb troll.
You are fast losing favour all over the forums. You have chosen to be condescending to the Devs and to the MAME project without doing any other research to back your baseless claims and opinions.
You have decided to take on the role of copyright advocate, and your lack of research into what is actually going on shows in all your posts
You threaten the MAME Devs and the whole project by saying people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
You big note yourself like you are a lawyer with a pending case against us the game preservation community.
You mislead yourself into believing that your arguments represent the views of the big game houses.
It is the altruism, passion and skill of the MAME community that have kept arcade games alive.
The only thing that I can agree on with you is that what Smitdogg said was right. You are Assburger.