"Private servers are illegal, don't advertise them here"

[Doomgaze]

Does EoFF even have a policy on what is and is not tolerated in regards to piracy? Do try to phrase your answer in such a way that explains said policy while justifying the fact that EoFF hosts several pirated NES, SNES, and GB roms, as well as 38 pirated music albums.

[Baloki]

EoFF doesn't host pirated content on the front site, it complies with the law saying that you should not keep the material for more then 24 hours after downloading it unless you own an orginal copy of the item, and reguarding the piracy matters I assume they don't want people saying, well heres where you can download illigal stuff and then sell it on at your local black market.

Black market goods are illigal, and so is advertising them Probably >.> <.<

[Doomgaze]

"EoFF doesn't host pirated content on the front site,"

FFdownloads.com is part of EoFF, as it clearly points out on the top of the page, and is seamlessly worked into the navbar on the main site. Regardless, even if it wasn't, it would be EoFF advertising a site that contains pirated material

"complies with the law saying that you should not keep the material for more then 24 hours after downloading it unless you own an orginal copy of the item,"

That is a myth.

[Yamaneko]

Yup.

I think a good policy would be, "the EoFF site staff may put up and host copyrighted material, but any other parties, be them forum or other, may not". If Cid wants to have ROMs and soundtracks on the mainsite then that's his decision. And if legal troubles ever do come this way, I'm sure he would deal with them. Everyone else should be subject to a no advertising illegal content rule since Cid cannot directly control what others post.

[Psychotic]

I like pirates. Yay EoFF!

[RSL]

"complies with the law saying that you should not keep the material for more then 24 hours after downloading it unless you own an orginal copy of the item

I'm pretty sure that there is no such law, and that putting that on your website will do nothing for you if someone decides to take legal action.

Yams summed everything else up.

[Del Murder]

I consider the main page separate from the forums. If Sean affiliated with a porn site or if the main page had nudie Tifa pics or something, I would still erase porn from these forums and treat it like nothing different. For roms, I usually just close it, unless they are asking for the always elusive FFIII or some old ass game. I would treat a link to a pirating site just the same.

[Erdrick Holmes]

NUDIE TIFA PICS. WHERE!?!

Damn you Del, you got me all excited.

[Baloki]

I'm pretty sure that there is no such law

Sorry EU Directive, but here in Europe they are the same thing.

[TheAbominatrix]

So much for a productive thread in feedback.

[Raistlin]

So EoFF supports the use of emulators and ROMs...but then again it doesn't?

M'kay.

[Yamaneko]

Yes. This isn't a democracy.

[Carnage]

delete this before the governement sees

[Samuraid]

Heh, this is less conspicuous than ffdownloads.com itself.

[Shlup]

Dear Doom and Raist: Your high horse needs water and rest; maybe you should give it a break.

Like Del said, the forums and site are seperate. Most of us have nothing to do with the frontsite. We allow threads that discuss pirated material, but not threads asking for pirated material because that's illegal. Obviously having them on EoFF is illegal also, so feel free to PM Cid asking them to take them off of his site if that'll make you feel like a big man.

*gets cranky when she hasn't had din din*