Warez, serials & cracks

[Seatherny]

Linking to warez-bb is NOT the same as linking to the .rar file. Anyone who argues against it has no idea what they are on about.
I have owned rapidlinks.co.uk before and I speak from experience.
Linking to .rar file is ILLEGAL in UK and should not be done. Doing so can lead to prosecution. If Habbox was hosted in Hong Kong, it would be fine.
Linking to warez-bb is NOT illegal as you are linking to a site, not providing the illegal material directly.

Argue against it if you wish but you would be wrong as none of you have experience in this field.

[FlyingJesus]

Disregard this, just found out Garion was a dirty dirty liar all along

[xxMATTGxx]

I believe there has been a problem with one company regarding something. Most of the time they forget your even a website and will go straight to where anyone is hosted. (The servers etc) So it is better safe then sorry.

[The Professor]

I apologise for the confusion, it was my mistake too. It is fine to discuss cracks etc but it is against the rules to post links to threads on things such as warez bb.

You can say find a torrent on it. Or look on rapidshare - that's fine. My mistake, and again I apologise.

Fair enough no worries, however I feel obliged to point out it isn't actually in the rules Unless it's well hidden, I did a search for "warez", "cracks" and "illegal" and none returned anything related to this announcement. If you're going to stick by it the rules kinda need to agree!

Up until this point we have indeed turned a blind eye to such activities. It was never expressly against the rules however as Misawa pointed out for the most part, it is illegal and we would much prefer not to have the hosting suspended for breaking the law. It was discussed with with the acting General Manager before we decided to do it and it was decided it was in Habbox's interests to stop it happening. Besides, there are many other sources of such things all over the internet - all of them a lot better than Habbox.

That last line doesn't hold any water at all, its actually far safer for someone to follow a link from someone on this forum who at least claims its safe rather than taking a punt with google and trying to find it themselves and getting a nice virus. Telling people to look elsewhere as opposed to getting it from a relatively safe source that they're used to getting it from seems very counter productive.

As for legality, when it this suddenly become an issue? Even Sulake never complained about that and they're petty enough to stop us selling VIP. Sounds a bit like "do it while the cat's away" to me.

[Nixt]

Disregard this, just found out Garion was a dirty dirty liar all along

I am a dirty, dirty person.

Regarding the rule, I apologise there was some confusion over the matter. I take full responsibility that I didn't make it clear enough. However you should get the general idea from the announcement.

In reference to the post regarding the fact we haven't yet received a complaint, we are not willing to take that risk. Generally if someone decides to launch a complaint into the fact we are allowing posts / threads / links that violate the law that complaint we go straight to our service providers and we will be given no warning and we may see our hosting suspended or similar. The risk is probably minimal, but it is not a risk we are willing to take.

Piracy is a crime, and we will not allow illegal activity to take place on Habbox Forum.

[xxMATTGxx]

Fair enough no worries, however I feel obliged to point out it isn't actually in the rules Unless it's well hidden, I did a search for "warez", "cracks" and "illegal" and none returned anything related to this announcement. If you're going to stick by it the rules kinda need to agree!



That last line doesn't hold any water at all, its actually far safer for someone to follow a link from someone on this forum who at least claims its safe rather than taking a punt with google and trying to find it themselves and getting a nice virus. Telling people to look elsewhere as opposed to getting it from a relatively safe source that they're used to getting it from seems very counter productive.

As for legality, when it this suddenly become an issue? Even Sulake never complained about that and they're petty enough to stop us selling VIP. Sounds a bit like "do it while the cat's away" to me.

Most people would know about other sites such as Warez-BB and other websites like that. If not, I'm sure they will find them with great ease.

Sulake ~ Aren't they the ones who got the company/organisation or whatever you want to call it to demand stuff for the "Online Radios" a while back?

[Chippiewill]

Just as long as moderators don't assume that the following link is against the rules then I'm fine with it....

http://www.mininova.org/tor/3177478

[kk.]

to me that would be against the rules

[xxMATTGxx]

to me that would be against the rules

I can see what you mean. Although Ubuntu is free to anyone so its not illegal to be downloading that via that torrent.

[Misawa]

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Edited by Garion (Assistant Forum Manager): Please use the report post button to notify Moderators of rule breaking.