Heres a question for you guys, are there any legal issues in running a website with game hacks and game hacks forums ? games like (counter strike , wow , dota basically popular multyplayer games) thx in advance.
The only potential issues that I can see are copyright and trademark issues regarding the use of the copyrighted game information and the trademarked game titles. You should be able to disclaim your way around them, but I would advise having a REALLY good TOS... Let me know if you have other questions. Deena _____________________________________________________________________ Any opinions are offered without knowledge of the specific law of your jurisdiction and with only the limited information provided in your post. No advice given here should be reasonably relied upon by you or any third party without consulting an attorney who is aware of all of the facts and law surrounding your situation. Any advice given here is not intended to create an attorney-client relationship in any way.
You are clearly breaking the TOS of the game which could lead the CD keys to be banned. Hacks like that also tend to contain viruses/keyloggers and distributing those is illegal. Even some of the hacks are illegal, World of Warcraft was able to successfully sue someone made and distributed a hack for their game. The story was on Slashdot awhile back and I am a litte fuzzy on the details but they were able to claim copyright infringement somehow because of how the hack work. Might want to look that up.
Linking to other sites doesn't provide any protection, they can still sue you for contributory infringement. The WoW case is the only one I know of where people have been sued over hacking games, and it isn't as clearcut as normal warez copyrighted infringement. Link to slashdot article about the case: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/26/2050250