Keygens?

[Galaxay]

I'd laugh if Habbox did get taken down for legal reasons, seems they need a wake up call.

I mean i argued about this a while ago, they said its fine (which was idiotic of them) as its not breaking habbo way (LOL@THAT), now since they want to become official their enforcing the rules, because official status?

If you ever see Habbox servers hosting files (such as sam on HxL or keygens just contact the owner of the company, as i do anytime, such as i've made various reports to Spacial audio about habbox)

[iFuseDan]

I will point out for the owners of Habbox something of importance:
The US Code covers not only usage but also the development, manufacture, distribution, importation, and advertisement of any software or hardware designed to circumvent copy protection techniques. Thus, anyone who worked on the development of the crack/keygen, anyone who distributed it, and anyone who uses it is committing a crime.

Reviewing the AUP of the company you use to either lease or colo the server this is on (SoftLayer - www.softlayer.com) - http://www.softlayer.com/aup.html

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The following list represents per se direct violations of Acceptable Use Policy and will be subject to immediate redress under the methods of resolution as described in the acceptable use policy.

Copyright Infringement: Direct copyright infringement as defined and noted under Title 17, Section 512 of the United States Code are a direct violation of the acceptable use policy. Please refer to DMCA copyright infringement requirements at http://www.softlayer.com/legal.html

Illegal Use: Any use of dedicated services in direct attempt of statutory illegal activities is a direct violation of the acceptable use policy. This includes, but is not limited to: death threats, terroristic threats, threats of harm to another individual, multi-level marketing schemes, "ponzi schemes", invasion of privacy, credit card fraud, racketeering, defamation, slander, and other common illegal activities.

If your provider were to have the links published to them showing your site hosting keys which are published to circumvent copy protection you then fall under breach of the AUP provided - linking to keygens is about the same - I can post you to news articles where the owner of a site hosting links to keygens / warez etc was actually arrested / fined.

Perhaps you should think about the survival of this forum before openly allowing people to post keygens and other keys?

[Recursion]

owned.

[Judge Judy]

Really it's against vB rules to do stuff like this (so I hear). Erm, I think it's OK to post keygens, but if it's in risk of closure then really you shouldn't be allowing keygens etcetc.

Unless you move the server to Sweden where they have different rules to USA UK Canada.

[HotelUser]

I believe the keygens should stay as they are not harming anyone but helping new users who can't get their own and well helps the forum get traffic in some ways as people won't have to go to external sites for them (which usually are unsafe).
I also hope that the forum does not have to abide the Official fansite rules as Habboxforum won't be the site that's official , it would be Habbox.com which is on a completely different server so I don't see why Habbo should be able to wreck the forum and change it into what ever they want.

Also keys gens are just a bunch off few numbers and text, surely there can't be any copyright claims against keygens , maybe with the actual program but not the serial codes themselves.
The only people that can complain about this are the people who have never used any 'illegal' keygens/cracks/programs and fully paid for everything and quite frankly there aren't many of those people around.

But we're providing these users with illegal files (that may also include Trojans to infect their computers, or other infections). I thought that would be sufficient to prevent further distribution on Habbox Fourm.

When the DCMA bites, they bite hard. Many of us are probably aware of what's happened with Mr.Svartholm in Sweden (I wont disclose the website). Even though he was not in violation with the law, local police still took actions against his website. The laws for the distibution of keygens, serials and other material of the same genera, is to an extent vague. It does depend on what action the company being hurt desires to do as well. But the chance of Habbox getting in legal trouble due to this, is in my opinion too high to risk.