Peter Poelman
20th March 2004, 08:20 AM
I've said it a number of times, and I'll say it again: XDA-developers is not a tool for the distribution of copyrighted software by others that the owners of such copyright. Please refrain from posting warez in public messages.
This has nothing to do with any firmly held moral beliefs, but merely with the practical matter of the management of this site being unwilling to be punished for other people's crimes and misdemeanors. There are much more suitable forums for warez distibution, such as alt.binaries.warez.pocketpc on Usenet.
Please do not think I condoned the posting because I reacted late this time: I'm at a trade show this week. I strongly appeal to everyone's common sense in this matter: please keep us all out of trouble.
(There is a grey area: for instance older Wallaby ROMs that were never sold and are hard (and will become harder) to come by. These ROMs serve an obvious research purpose for this community, and since most were never sold posting them would not hurt anyone's financial interests. If the owner complained I'd still take them down, but I can see a time coming when these ROMs will be like Commodore 64 games.)
This has nothing to do with any firmly held moral beliefs, but merely with the practical matter of the management of this site being unwilling to be punished for other people's crimes and misdemeanors. There are much more suitable forums for warez distibution, such as alt.binaries.warez.pocketpc on Usenet.
Please do not think I condoned the posting because I reacted late this time: I'm at a trade show this week. I strongly appeal to everyone's common sense in this matter: please keep us all out of trouble.
(There is a grey area: for instance older Wallaby ROMs that were never sold and are hard (and will become harder) to come by. These ROMs serve an obvious research purpose for this community, and since most were never sold posting them would not hurt anyone's financial interests. If the owner complained I'd still take them down, but I can see a time coming when these ROMs will be like Commodore 64 games.)