Re: Is it Time to Re-Discuss Copyright Rules on This Forum
Ok, let's clear the air. Google search leads to a torrent site: That's intentional, yet Google itself does not host that site. A search engine crawls the web, doesn't host content.
Also the torrent file format is completely legal, in fact there have been instrument packages that I bought that have used it as their main method of faster downloading, which makes perfect sense for several gb of downloading at a time. But the torrent sites, most of them, are indeed hosting elicit content, but it isn't just because they're torrents (Linux distroes often encourage you to use their torrent downloads).
What we are talking about here is sites that host pirated content of which can be found with extremely minimal effort, i.e it's right there on the page.
You're also forgetting that what you do off forum is not the mod's concern, but obviously hoping no one uses that as an excuse to start cracking games or forking just because it's off forum. This is out of no personal bias for described content or roms or hte like. All they're doing is insuring the site is safe from potential legal harm, and we give off a good impression to potential mainstream devs looking at this site. Typically a takedown notice is accompanied with at least a few nice warnings and a chance to react, but the entertainment industry is doing everything in their power to prevent that and will go tooth and nail with site owners, and more often than not they unfortunately win. Why is that? They have an over-the-top legal team that, in reality, benefits them more than the actual artists/creatives they claim to be trying to protect. But we, on the other hand, do not have a legal team, and so one big legal embodiment could literally screw us over. And we don't want that.
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