Reply 60 of 97, by weedeewee
maxtherabbit wrote on 2022-07-14, 19:04:I did read it correctly. Snover specifically justified the rules by protection from legal action against the site. My response w […]
Dominus wrote on 2022-07-14, 12:56:Read it correctly: […]
Read it correctly:
„Mentioning the existence of these sites is not a violation of VOGONS rules, but inducing people to violate copyright is.“
It’s not about the law but the rules here. And the laws are different in countries. Posting links is not always guilt free ;(
And the owner doesn’t want to test laws 🤷♂️I did read it correctly. Snover specifically justified the rules by protection from legal action against the site. My response was that banning direct links is probably prudent, but "inducing people to violate copyright" is not a legitimate concern.
My point boils down to this:
Is the rule actually:
1) don't post things that could get the site in legal trouble
or
2) don't post things that violate the admins' sense of morality, because "we" believe warez is immoral?These two things are quite different, and in order to act in good faith one needs to know what the real intent is
I'm guessing that it's mostly (1)
I've been looking around a bit, Plasma saying that this is the only forum on which this happens isn't quite right.
the two google searches, mentioned in the first post, with vogons replaced with vcfed give some interesting reads. I even ran into some of Plasma's comments.
And vcfed also has a mention in their terms and rules 'Telling people how to pirate a software title is an example of something that is not allowable here.'
Now one can argue overthere if this means circumventing drm measures or copyprotections or just linking to a downloadable version of some copyrighted software.
And links to copyrighted software can be found, not a lot, but still they're there, just like here on vogons. Not all posts get reported by users and not all posts get read by admin&moderators.
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