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David Gerard

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Post by David Gerard »

On 08/04/2008, thees <[email protected]> wrote:
It is a Copy protection Aplay a crack and it should work
You may not have known, but postings about cracks are absolutely
unwelcome on the Wine users forum/list ...

Does the forum need a more prominent notice that postings about copy
protection cracks are not allowed and will be summarily deleted?

(Preferably without prejudice to people posting about such the first
time they do.)


- d.
Mitchell Mebane

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Post by Mitchell Mebane »

David Gerard wrote:
On 08/04/2008, thees <[email protected]> wrote:

It is a Copy protection Aplay a crack and it should work
You may not have known, but postings about cracks are absolutely
unwelcome on the Wine users forum/list ...

Does the forum need a more prominent notice that postings about copy
protection cracks are not allowed and will be summarily deleted?

(Preferably without prejudice to people posting about such the first
time they do.)


- d.


I really don't see why merely mentioning that a crack is currently the
only way to get a game working should be taboo, so long as nobody
mentions /where/ to get it from. That's roughly the policy of every
emulation forum I've ever hung around for the past 7 years, and none of
them have suffered legal problems for it.

--mmebane
Dan Kegel

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Post by Dan Kegel »

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Mitchell Mebane
<[email protected]> wrote:
I really don't see why merely mentioning that a crack is currently the only
way to get a game working should be taboo, so long as nobody mentions
/where/ to get it from. That's roughly the policy of every emulation forum
I've ever hung around for the past 7 years, and none of them have suffered
legal problems for it.
Wine has a bigger target painted on it; we have to be more careful, I think.

Part of that is fostering a culture of encouraging squeaky-clean legality.
hendrik

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Post by hendrik »

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 06:17:36PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Mitchell Mebane
<[email protected]> wrote:
I really don't see why merely mentioning that a crack is currently the only
way to get a game working should be taboo, so long as nobody mentions
/where/ to get it from. That's roughly the policy of every emulation forum
I've ever hung around for the past 7 years, and none of them have suffered
legal problems for it.
Wine has a bigger target painted on it; we have to be more careful, I think.
And, I suspect, a bigger gun aiming at it.

-- hendrik
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