Re: enough is enough, and it's time for a change.
From the legal side, and again not a lawyer etc, I believe the determining factor here is whether or not audiogames.net is behind a legal entity. The mods are in very different positions if they're hired by a company, as opposed to just being free agents with some permissions to the database. In the former case it's clear whose head it falls on first, though if such a legal entity decided to throw the mods under the bus they could do so.
I won't bother making a moral argument, but I will make a quality argument. I don't think any of us are going to ask for a db witch hunt, in the world where legality isn't a concern. But this is a good way to push devs out. If this goes to a vote of some sort and half the community is like "pfft piracy", that's going to be another nail in the coffin of devs not wanting to be here. I won't leave over it: the kinds of things I do aren't pirateable anyway, I'm one of the few experienced people with actual answers instead of more questions, and I've got a thick skin. So I want to be clear this isn't some sort of threat. But it is definitely alienating if/when it becomes clear that there's a contingent who hasn't got a problem with stealing from other people, because you might be the next person on that list, and I think that in general this community should really start thinking about why we've lost multiple high profile devs rather than continually resisting change.
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