its illegal to run a warez board due to the fact your still dealing in stolen goods aka copyrighted material that has been nulled. same principle as if you were to sell some stolen goods that your mate gave to you you would be done for possession of stolen goods
Well I am the owner of a warez board and I haven't any problems at all; I use sameerhosting.com for linking even though the server is in usa. And about me, oh yea lol in my country I have seen policemen buying pirated movies just for $1.50! Warez-bb has its servers in Hong Kong and ba-k.com (the biggest hispanic warez site) is using ovh.com french hosting with no problems...
I think it is a gray area that starts to turn dark black. You never know it gets in the media and they want to look tough and make a few examples they might go after a few people.
If a forum, or whatever site, is promoting or encouraging illegal activities or snatiching pirate content, what do you thing it is?
You can host a warez site, in the Netherlands. It will cost you high, but you'll be safe. The thing you can't do is host the actual files in the server, but you can link to them, like rapidshare, etc.
As long as the server is hosted in a country where warez is not a big fuss and you dont host the content your self you just provide the links then you should be ok.
In the Netherland you can also enjoy condom museums and drug served with your coffee at the sidewalk cafes. And I'm not kidding so maybe they are also tolerant with warez.
Warez forums are illegal. Dont host illegal files on ur server & dont show warez links on ur forum.. Stay away from this..
simple: Linking to warez is illegal but u can still get away with it if no one complaint about it. Just ask my hosting bout his, they allowed rapidshare warez link but if someone logged a report then they hv to take action. There's million site that content rapidshare warez link, look at blogspot.com. There's warez site that host at blogspot.com for more than 3 years but no action was taken.
Well, as of the illegal thing, then any person involved directly or indirectly in kind of illegal act shall be held guilty. It depends from case to case.. it is just like selling an illegal gun to someone who is going to murder someone else with the same gun.. Once that murder gets caught then that seller will also get caught for selling the illegal gun.... I think you are getting my point.. warez is piracy.. as the content developers of the content you get from warez dont get any money/loyalty for the same thing and also no kind of approval is taken from then in order use it which in fact violates their copyright.. .and i think that copyright act is everywhere in the world.. yes again it depends from country to country how they implement it. Thus, warez are illegal...
I was once a die hard warez forum owner, but that time it isn't fun at all for being warned and closed down by web host over and over again. Yes, you may earn thousands from "donations" and some CPA ads but in return you'll have to bear the risk of being sued by certain companies from few thousands to maybe even few hundred thousands, or even serious jail is the place you sleep on the other day. I bet you don't like someone to steal your belongings, so why steal others while you can get a living from unlimited sources? You would like someone to lecture you instead of doing something which is inappropriate. I did not say whether is it illegal or not, but just.. stay away.
Im getting out of warez due to recent threats of multi-million dollar law suits against me. Few years ago it wouldnt matter but they are getting moody about it.