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[God]

I think we should disallow piracy threads in the Help forum. I don't know why, except that people stealing games ticks me off lately, and that it's terribly illegal. Not to mention the shady characters that get attracted by forums where people know they can get information about stealing / cracking software. No more piracy threads = no more emulation threads maybe, but oh well. Discuss.

[ShlupQuack]

Arr, matey! What have you agains us pirate types?

Though I suppose the threads have the potential to sour our blossoming relationship with a certain you-know-what, staff. *cough*

I'm conflicted.

[God]

Huh?

[ShlupQuack]

Just trying to hint at a point the staff should consider before saying "nazi nazi nazi" without spilling any beans, since I'm pretty sure its supposed to be a secret.

[eestlinc]

i feel we should disallow such threads as well. encouraging illegal activity is not always the best idea. if we don't want pro drug threads then we don't want pro piracy threads either. if you want to discuss the merits, that's cool though.

[Garland]

I don't have any need for hacking/emulation/piracy threads, so it's fine with me if you ban them. They are illegal after all. Picking some illegal activities that it's ok to promote and some that it's not isn't consistant. Besides, "family/child friendliness" is often used as the weapon against the other controversial topics that aren't allowed. It won't be hard to argue that we don't want our children learning how to rob the gaming industry from EoFF.

[MecaKane]

People who don't know how freaking easy it is to get pirate stuff, don't deserve it.
Or something.

[Yamaneko]

I'm going to have to agree with Unne and the others. Would this include threads aiding in the dl and production of mp3 to audio CDs?