I hear ya

I operate a legitimate business and in the states, if I want to program Bally and WMS ROMS, they get a hologram sticker and of course, there is an associated fee for the sticker. I have to follow 'the rules' if I want the ability to program the ROMS.

When Wayne was in your country, he was able to shut down a lot of activities in my country, so I don't see what stops Planetary in the US from doing the same in yours. Plenty of stuff goes on behind closed doors in the US, and I wouldn't expect anything differently in any other country - just thought I'd bring it up.

Nobody can stop anyone from running modified ROMS in their machine, or even modifying the ROMS - if the person doing the modified ROMS is running them in *their* own machine. When you provide a service to a person - even if you say you are only charging for the service and the chip - not the software - it crosses the 'official' line. If I were offering a forbidden service, I wouldn't want it advertised, as even if I could get away with it, I wouldn't want to deal with the harassment.

Having said that, if I didn't think that LEDs were absolute garbage in 99% of pinball applications, I'd want the ROMS myself :)