Re: Lets talk about the requesting of stuff on this forum
@hurstseth405
Virtually all nations are signatories to the Berne Convention and are members of WIPO, so public copyright infringement is not something to be taken lightly anywhere.
To the moderators, unfortunately there is no abandonware or special needs exemption to copyright infringement, and the forum may actually lose its safe harbor under the DMCA, in case its owner or moderators either fails to act upon receipt of a valid DMCA notice or acquires actual knowledge that the material is infringing or facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent.
The knowledge exemption to the safe harbor is of particular concern if a user explicitly request something illegal and the moderator or owner fails to remove the subsequent thread.
Note that a forum is not by default protected under the DMCA's safe harbor but must jump through hoops including registering a DMCA agent for processing notices and must -- though the particular conditions aren't well settled -- enforce a repeat infringer policy.
Also note that tolerating copyright inducement is by itself something that may bring down the hammer on a site operator by raising red flag knowledge.
Asking for a an abandoned game may seem innocent but if protected by copyright, the forum should probably just ban the user to avoid further trouble.
And no, I don't like copyright at all, but explicitly and publicly encouraging copyright infringement is not very smart.
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