Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong Jayimbo!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by opensourcehost
They are providing ACTIVE links, and encourging in breaking the law.
Hence TV links
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Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong Jayimbo!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by opensourcehost
They are providing ACTIVE links, and encourging in breaking the law.
Hence TV links
As I've said it is a community site, if the data center had a problem with members linking each other to illegal content them I'm sure they would have said and Habbox would have avoided allowing members to do this. Additionally there are many thousands if not millions of other sites that will contain some form of link to copyrighted material either on purpose or by accident and unless the linking of illegal cracks/keygens became so large that the site had to stamp down on it I don't see it causing any problem. Members are posting freely and it is hard for Habbox to ensure 100% of copyrighted material links are removed and I doubt someone would take direct legal action against Habbox for this. I expect something like this if it began to cause a problem could be sorted out without legal action and additionally it doesn't appear to have caused a problem so far anyway and if it had or will I would have expected the rules to have indicated that doing this is in breach of them. :) There are too many sites hosting this material as it is that have not be taken action against, really action is only taken against the big ones and they aim to clamp down on sites hosting the content rather than linking and I'm sure as I've said that any content that the site was told it needed to removed could be removed easily. I've hosted sites before and had the data center request the removal of illegal content on sites rather than direct legal action which was always done swiftly when requested so really I don't see that causing a huge problem for Habbox either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarith
Jay what your saying is, if datacenter has a problem with habbox taking part in illegal stuff, they'd contact you and ask you to remove it, instead of reporting it to the police or whatever?
Thats like
"Oh hi your a 12 year old with 5kg of hash in your pocket, let me see it and you can be on your way, you may have broke the law but you removed the thing on your breaking the law so ur alright now"
No I'm saying if members are posting links to illegal stuff then the datacenter would warn Habbox it is important that it is removed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scotteh
Habbox isn't "taking part" in illegal activities however members are linking to illegal content and not Habbox itself. The forum would probably be asked to remove the posts made by members rather than the site being taken offline. If the illegal content was on the main page of www.habbox.com for example then yes this would be risky for Habbox however members posting content in this way is hard to filter and isn't really Habbox's job. If something like that became a problem then it would probably just be requested to be removed and the member to be banned but again that is unlikely. I've seen friends who have ran hosting companies and have helped them before and really if a members account has illegal content on it 9/10 the data center would send a simple email warning the host that it needs to remove the content. Legal action is normally only taken in the event that the person who owns the site refuses to remove the illegal content. It would be in the best interest for all parties to sort such and issue outside of court if it even got to that stage but as I've said there are many thousands of sites across the internet hosting much more illegal content whereas a few threads on Habbox link to some content? I think I know where the priority is for stopping people breaking copyright laws and I also think that if this was a problem the general management would have put a rule in place already so really it doesn't appear to be causing an issue?
This is just my opinion on the matter of course, I may be wrong but this is what I think anyway.
Habbox is allowing the members to, so to an extent it is taking part, otherwise you'd tell us not to, then it wouldnt be as much of your problem as you've got something in place to prevent us from doing it, however there isnt and frankly you couldnt care less if we posted it.
Well it really is partly the members problem for posting it as they are breaking the law and also I don't expect any action would be taken against the site anyway and at the most the site would just be requested to remove the content that links to the illegal site. Really the sites that are breaking the law are the ones that are targeted to be shut down and they shouldn't be there to link to in the first place really. Habbox isn't really doing anything wrong and if it was I'm sure the site management would have or will be informed and appropraite changes would be made but until then I doubt it will be made against the rules to post this sort of content. Really at the end of the day it is a management decision on if this is or isn't against the rules and I'm sure that if there is a problem or a problem develops the management would ban posting of this sort of content. Again this is my opinion and I may be wrong, it is just how I feel about the matter. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scotteh
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Originally Posted by Scotteh
You, and this thread have been owned. :).
What ever way you look at it theres goods and bads, but it IS allowed, which was the arguement in the first place, guess you lost. :)
We'll report Habbox Forum to the datacenter and let them sort it out then shall we.
Sulake will also be given a link to this thread. Should be interesting as well as authorities to this thread.
Habbox are allowing there members to break the law, which states you are not allowed to post links to warez, pirate software's or what ever you want to call it. End of the day, these links are stored on habbox, stored in the database.
Obviously there are a hell of a lot of what you can and can't do regarding the matter, but to put it simple;
Habbox are breaking the law.
---MAD--- says this is Sierks final word and it should be allowed,I have PM'd Sierk with links to his host etc with proof they disallow it, lets see what he says...
I've sent an email to Sulake, trying to trace down the datacenter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Davetaylor
It really is pathetic that MAD or who ever is in charge are allowing warez on a teenage community forum built for Habbo.