Petros
Thief IV
- Joined
- 19 May 2003
- Messages
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I recently got banned from a forum for talking about playing on a private WoW server. Server emulation, while a violation of the TOU, have never been established as actually being illegal. Nobody has ever been fined and nobody has ever gone to prison over it (actual code theft aside).
People at the site discuss doing things that are a heck of a lot more illegal on that website. Drugs, prostitution, violent assault, theft, sex with minors all come and go without a whiff of a ban over the subject matter.
It's not just that site in particular, though; it's all over the internet. You can't so much as mention that you played Joust on your Atari 2600 emulator without a OMG WAREZ flamewar on most tech-related websites.
Why do you think warez (or even discussion of emulation) is such a hot button issue while other more obvious and illegal things simply get ignored?
People at the site discuss doing things that are a heck of a lot more illegal on that website. Drugs, prostitution, violent assault, theft, sex with minors all come and go without a whiff of a ban over the subject matter.
It's not just that site in particular, though; it's all over the internet. You can't so much as mention that you played Joust on your Atari 2600 emulator without a OMG WAREZ flamewar on most tech-related websites.
Why do you think warez (or even discussion of emulation) is such a hot button issue while other more obvious and illegal things simply get ignored?