Are warez boards illegal?

If you want to go ahead and make one, make sure you host it offshore. Try in countries like Malaysia, Sweden, or the Netherlands.

 

off course they are, and being their member is even more because people encourage them
to do so..which is really bad.

 

Killing what?

 

Some people on this thread are stating their opinions as if they are facts. The fact is warez IS illegal and you can be sued for warez. Just because you host it in a country where laws are a bit loose doesn't mean you are exempt from the laws of your country.

 

This is a very good point i agree

 

Everything is Legal in This Modern Age.

SO U cannot Blame on Warez.

So As far as My Mind says Its should be legal..

 

it had servers in panama, but they recently shifted so i dont remember where exactly

 

Which may not reflect how others think, much more how things happen in the
offline world. If everything's legal, then so should putting my own foot in your
mouth as well.

If you don't care about the established rights of others, then why should they
care about yours?

 

Yes it's illegal for linking to external hosts. You need off shore hosting.

 

You don't get the joke do you?

 

Then I guess that as long that it is hosted offshore, preferably in a country that has no piracy laws, then you can do whatever you want. I'm surprised that the popular warez site warez-bb.org is still running.

 

having a website can never be illegal. But obviously selling or distributing copyrighted material can be illegal.

 

You all are clueless to the laws of copyright infringement. I see so many here are saying what is politically correct so they don't get banned on this forum. I don't care if I get banned so I'll tell you the truth.

I'm not going to waste my time explaining the civil laws of copyright infringement.

This should make it pretty clear.

You don't see child porn sites because it is illegal.

You do see warez sites because it is not illegal.

An addition you can only get sued if you are proven to be profiting off of the actual sales of copy righted material. People are confused about the offshore hosting also. That is all wrong. You want to host warez sites in the United States where you are protected by The Freedom Of Information Act. If you are skilled enough to do Parent Directory searches on Google you will see that they have listings of copyrighted material for people to freely download. You don't see them changing their search system to meet the copyright laws do you. No because the information they are providing is just that, information not actual copyrighted material.

Know if you are hosting the files like Rapidshare.com and are profiting from it then you need to have your servers off shore like switzerland as they do.

This is a very old topic sense people started copying cassette tapes and giving them away and nothing has changed.

 

I have always wondered how do sites like warez-bb make any money. If you look they only have a small ad up in the top corner. I mean does that pay that much to cover the enormous hosting bill?

 

WBB started out with donations until PayPal recieved to many complaints and it's easier to dump an account than to fight the complaints that have no real merit.

I was one of the people to help create that forum under a different name. User number 30 out of 750,000. We created it by having 25 guys post for two months straight eight hours a day. A complete dedication to creating the biggest warez forum out there. Not too many people know that Warez-bb.org was the second site and the first one was so sucessfull it was sold and renamed to something that is against policy to mention.

Through donations the owner coolyou invested wisely in his own server hardware etc. which makes it alot cheaper in the long run to opperate. As of now, all I can say is that he works full time and does not make very much off the advertisements. If you want more info search on the forum.

All the origanal people that have helped create it have moved on due to the fact that we are in our 30's - 40's and the board now is dominated by kids in there twenties.

Myself I have a blog of ebook parent directories called cooldogebooks.blogspot.com. It is based on The Freedom Of Information Act just like warez forums that don't host any files.

People have to donate $10 to access my search result links. I'm not selling copyrighted material. People are donating for my search searvices and reciveing a ebook with the links. That is how I profit from my webwork and it works out very well.

Chilling effects has posted a DMA infringement warning in 2006 and emailed me to delete the blog. I told them that they can't scare me that easily and for them to sue me if they think they have any legal binding.

There never did anything after that.

See that is the problem with civil copyright laws. Most people have no idea of the true laws and are believing the lies being told to scare them.

 

I was using my domain seriously-free.com to link to warez downloads. But I'm not sure how Google Adsense feels about warez related sites, so I'm going to find another use for the domain.

 

Its not only illegal, its a crime ...lol! but then it's nothing to do with this topic

@BigSkippy, many thanks for the great explanation about civil laws of copyright infringement. Appreciated.

 

I dont know whether it is legal or not.
but mostly warez site distribute copyrighted and payed material for free.
and mostly their software have virus (because the crack maybe)
but sometimes warez site is good too for those desprate for expensive things for free.
haha

 

Let me break it down on how to host a warez forum without any trouble at all just like pirate bay and warez-bb

first you have to have a kickass staff to enforce rules, then you have to have offshore hosting where it isn't illegal (sweden is best from what I read) then you have to make all your members link the warez in other words put code wrapping around the link so technically you're just linking to the hosting site and not yours (why do you think warez-bb is so strict with the code around link rules?) that's pretty much it after that you have yourself a secured warez board

 

warez are illegal however a one should have hosting in the HK/Russia/Netherland to have a warez forum.
!!! SAY NO TO WAREZ !!!