Warez Linking Illegal?

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    Is warez linking illegal in the usa?
     
    getatune, Apr 12, 2009 IP
  2. eFishy

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    Its a dodgy subject. There is nothing saying that its illegal... but people have been taken to court for it. So some data centres won't allow as they have a risk, others don't mind.
     
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    Seqqa Well-Known Member

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    It's supporting illegal activity, like if I was financing drugs that would be illegal.
     
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    #4
    yes it is if yu do anything illegal on yur forum
     
    thekiller12, Apr 12, 2009 IP
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    fabriciogr Active Member

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    well don't be surprised if it soon becomes illegal. here in Spain it recently became illegal to link to any illegal content and France is wanting to approve a similar law in the upcoming weeks.
     
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    #6
    Its illegal.
    But you can get around the law by hosting the warez linking outside the US such as NL.
     
    mentos, Apr 13, 2009 IP
  7. UnBooked

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    Its illegal. It depends on your webhost though. Host with someone out of country. =]
     
    UnBooked, Apr 13, 2009 IP
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    As long as the warez download are on another server people wont mind it.
     
    EasycPanelHost, Apr 13, 2009 IP
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    Illegal if the web hosting is done in the US. Has the potential for tons of virus's/malware so why do it?
     
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    #10
    illegal, better avoid it
     
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  11. Next

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    #11
    It's not illegal to link to anything. The legality is based on whether it is legal to host the content.
     
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    wibblet Banned

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    #12
    linking isn't illegal so if you wrap the warez link in code to say rapidshare you can't get in trouble
     
    wibblet, Apr 14, 2009 IP
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    As others have said most data centers in US don't allow it's too big of a risk. The best thing to do is get hosting in Holland or Malaysia people I know have never had problems linking in those countries.
     
    Andy93, Apr 14, 2009 IP
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    mr_mahesh_in Well-Known Member

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    Warez Linking is illegal and may land up you in jail (esp. in the U.S.)
     
    mr_mahesh_in, Apr 18, 2009 IP
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    #15
    have someone in RO own the domain and hosting and you won't have any problem; in US you will get into trouble.
     
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    Google will not do nothing about links, as far as they don't host the file.

    Also companies as Rapidshare use a very naive (but effective trick) to host wareza: as they DO NOT MAKE LINKS PUBLIC and they "don't know" what the links have, they have no responsability.

    Let me tell you that, for developers, Rapidshare is good. Because they are very fast to delete a file if you report it to abuse.
    Some time ago, when files was hosted on Russian sites, there where almost impossible to report abuse, nobody cares. But RS, Easy-Share, MegaUpload, etc. are very fast on deleting files if reported.
     
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    Mmm... i can find many rapidshare links in Google... that means that Google owners will get in jail???? :D
     
    yenerich, Apr 19, 2009 IP
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    #18
    its illegal, no matter where u are.
     
    bunbunx2, Apr 22, 2009 IP