Alpha Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 To all Emulation Sites who have linked to us: Many of you have refused to link to our site, www.1emulation.com, out offears that it in itself is illegal, because it contains links toillegal content. Some of you have cited hearsay, indicating thatothers with similar sites have been arrested, prosecuted, andincarcerated, which is patently false. Such rumors do nothing butcreate fear and chaos within our community. The fact of the matter is,linking to illegal content is not prohibited, and never has been. The tradition of all open societies, including the United States, is toallow freedom of association, including with criminals. In practicalterms, this means that we are free to associate with those violatingintellectual property law. What we are NOT free to do is to violatecopyrights ourselves, or to distribute material which breaks the law. Linking to other people who do, on the other hand, is not prohibited. As a matter of logic, all search engines would be criminally liable ifthat were the case, which it clearly is not. The only exception tothis in all of American law is the Patriot Act, which prohibits giving"expert assistance or aid to terrorists." A case in federal courtright now is attempting to convict a man who moderated a messageboardwhere some known terrorists posted messages. However, note that thislegislation is expressly targeted against terrorism, and I am notlinking through my site to any terrorists. As such, you ought to dropall of your baseless fears of my site--it is perfectly legal, and youhave nothing to fear from linking to it. I have sent this exact message as an email to all other emulationsites who refuse to link to us. Sincerely, GameCop (1Emulation.Com Owner/CEO) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 One word: Indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 (edited) I hope you can translate that into engrish so you can send it to the Emuchina/Romshare webmaster on a serious note, I don't think he's gonna understand it Edited June 11, 2004 by Weirdanzeige Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 GameCop, make them understand....translate it to different languages just in case.But yeah, 1Emulation.Com is a place for emulation lovers, not a place for warez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Now that is beautiful. You show them punks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultan Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 Its true its not illegal to link to sites that contain illegal material. It can get you threaded by the copyright holder though. But taking down the offending link solves that problem. People are too uptight sometimes. I swear on some sites its a contest to see who can be the biggest prig about berating anyone who speaks of anything that might be remotely related to playing a game that you didn't buy! o.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami_Bomb3r Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 Kind of ironic, that when I tried to link to this post, the link was edited. I hope that they look past the illegal material to see the great community, but for some sites, it goes beyond the illegal subject matter - it's just a matter of trying to be as clean as possible (Some of these sites were around when Nintendo and Sony went ape-crap crazy and began their onslaught against emulation.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diso Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 They want to be a site that's legal. Then take off all those copyrighted pictures...You're breaking copyright laws by doing that and not stating that they're not yours...omg owned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultan Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 Ya I remember when fox would threaten any site that posted pics from the simpsons. That was the silliest. It seems to me that corporations have cooled the ridiculous lawsuits threats in the last few years. no more threatening sites over a few pictures and such. at least I hope so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkKnight Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 They want to be a site that's legal. Then take off all those copyrighted pictures...You're breaking copyright laws by doing that and not stating that they're not yours...omg ownedassuming you're speaking of ngemu, what copyrighted images do they have? To defend NGemu, this isn't about community or anything like that, but it's to uphold what they stand for. If they don't want to link to this site because it'll enable many more people to obtain files illegally, then i'm willing to support them on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emsley Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 Blah blah blah... Don't worry about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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