Is it against the rules to break the law?

[Kardan]

The forum needs to sort out priorities.

I'd get infractioned for calling someone a ***** but I can go around posting illegal downloads

[Cixso]

The forum needs to sort out priorities.

I'd get infractioned for calling someone a ***** but I can go around posting illegal downloads

It's ran by bad management.

[DaveTaylor]

I've sent an email to Sulake, trying to trace down the datacenter.

It really is pathetic that MAD or who ever is in charge are allowing warez on a teenage community forum built for Habbo.

The datacenter was simple to find, locate the IP of this site or use dnscoop.com and find the hoster via the NS

[Catzsy]

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.

Its not hard Jay - I used to do it all the time

[carrick]

i hope habboxforum gets closed down

[Mr.OSH]

Its not hard Jay - I used to do it all the time

It doesn't ensure it will always be 100% filtered though. It is at the end of the day a general management decision and really it isn't easy to ensure there is absolutely no links to illegal content on the site as obviously posts will be missed etc or some links may not be labeled as illegal content but they are and not every link posted on the forum is checked so I can't imagine the forum could ever be 100% clean of it. Anyway it isn't my decision but I don't expect that it is something that would get the site in big trouble as it is partly the member in questions problem for posting it and the site which is hosting it also. Additionally there isn't even lots of illegal content on the site anyway - it isn't like the sole purpose of the site is to share illegal content, it just isn't directly against the forum rules.

[Catzsy]

It doesn't ensure it will always be 100% filtered though. It is at the end of the day a general management decision and really it isn't easy to ensure there is absolutely no links to illegal content on the site as obviously posts will be missed etc or some links may not be labeled as illegal content but they are and not every link posted on the forum is checked so I can't imagine the forum could ever be 100% clean of it. Anyway it isn't my decision but I don't expect that it is something that would get the site in big trouble as it is partly the member in questions problem for posting it and the site which is hosting it also. Additionally there isn't even lots of illegal content on the site anyway - it isn't like the sole purpose of the site is to share illegal content, it just isn't directly against the forum rules.

Agreed it it would be impossible to do it 100% that's why it's in the T&Cs but
I just feel that the forum doesn't look good allowing this particuarly as it didn't for years and it does risk action or shut down I believe.

[StefanCampbell]

You lot are taking 4 links posted WAY to serious.. lmao irl, when theres warez and torrent search engines posting links to hundreds of thousands of links, your pathetic.

Like the authorities are going to be bothered about a little nooby habbo fansite posting a few links to a few illegal downloads which no-one downloaded.

[Mr.OSH]

Agreed it it would be impossible to do it 100% that's why it's in the T&Cs but
I just feel that the forum doesn't look good allowing this particuarly as it didn't for years and it does risk action or shut down I believe.

Well really at the end of the day that is a management decision. I don't think that the forum would be shut down straight off because of a breach of copyright however it probably is a safer option just to stop members from posting it - I agree. Despite this I'm sure there is nothing to worry about as if the data center have an issue with the content posted on the forum they will or would have contact(ed) sierk and I'm sure he'd be able to sort it out. It is a decision for sierk and the general management to make at the end of the day really.

[Catzsy]

You lot are taking 4 links posted WAY to serious.. lmao irl, when theres warez and torrent search engines posting links to hundreds of thousands of links, your pathetic.

Like the authorities are going to be bothered about a little nooby habbo fansite posting a few links to a few illegal downloads which no-one downloaded.

I think you will find they take it very seriously indeed.