I thought I was done with this crap, but ya pissed me off! 
When I was at the Chicago Expo last year, I only saw FX2 on his cabs. Did I stand over him to try to catch him? No. But I had a good long conversation with him since we’ve done business together. I’ve talked to him in the past about Paul’s comments about his cabs being inferior, and his feeling was “I don’t know why he feels he has to do that”. This is like a year BEFORE Sharktank. Brad is not a strong forum guy, he’s a business owner. Why does he even have to respond? Because someone in a forum said something about him, and they want to get him on something? Again, he’s got a business to run, he aint got time for that. 
Now let’s review, shall we?
It’s announced at VPF that Visual Pinball will be featured on Sharktank. Just before this, out of the blue, Paul does a local piece on his own which airs just before Sharktank. I don’t remember seeing an announcement that “Paul was going to be on TV” until it happened. The timing is suspicious to me.
In this piece Paul shows VP! Harlem Globetrotters, to be exact. Brad showed FX2 on TV.
Immediately after Sharktank this mess unfolds- why now? If this has been going on all along, why is it only being talked about right now?? I believe it’s an attempt to diminish/damage control the Sharktank appearance to Virtuapin.
Neither one of these guys is going to put a cab in every home like a microwave, so there’s very limited market here. These are expensive toys. I might have 750$ into my cab (not including the PC), that’s cheap. But 750$ to the next guy may be someone else’s rent.
The only way for EITHER of these guys to make money is to control the whole scene. There’s not enough money to go 3 ways on this. Brad has no forum, just a business. Paul has a very controlled forum. People with competing products are banned.
Paul was given 100 licenses by Randy Davis when he started his business several years ago. How is he licensing them now if there’s “no commercial use”? I was in chat when someone asked for help with their Virtuapin, so don’t think for a second that both sides are completely clean.
The very nature of buying a cab is “I don’t have the time/patience/skills to make a cab, I’ll pay you to do it for me”. Why is this a shocker?? Because it’s “illegal”? Why hasn’t Randy Davis spoken up if it’s so bad? If the creator of the program hasn’t spoken up, why should we care?
I’ll say this again. Eventually some misguided individual is going to go to the wrong person and convince them that money is being lost, and that’ll be the end. Is your cab backed up??? Do you not need any more tables?
Some people talk as if they don’t support Virtupin VPF will go down and that’ll be the end. How naive. Let’s see, there’s here, VPU, and my site, and I’m sure SOMEONE has a torrent out there…. Nothing will be lost.
My advice: Sit down (or stand), STFU and enjoy pinball. Enjoy this for what it is, as long as it lasts. I mean, VP may not even work in the next OS, right?
Disclosure: I was paid by Brad to make a table. I made an original (scratch built) table that he planned to use to demo the machine to a customer bearing their name. The deal fizzled, but I was still paid for my time. Brad also powder coated all my parts, and printed decals for free. I was willing to pay for this, as it wasn’t part of the deal, but he wanted to do this for me.
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