ive been dl roms here for awhile how come this site hasnt been shut down like the rest of them
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ive been dl roms here for awhile how come this site hasnt been shut down like the rest of them
I jokingly informed the unseen one that the IDSA simply feared me, just like everyone else.
I cowered from Skinner8, confirming what he informed the unseen one of, whilst stealing skinner8's style.
cuase this site rocks so much:rockin:
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Originally posted by uncle evil
cuase this site rocks so much:rockin:
nah this site is good wit that its run by some wicky people:biggrin:
Everytime that they tried it I pick a good weapon ( i.e Uzi , bazooka, etc etc ) and I shoot them.... very simple but effective:wacko:
"rest of them"?
What sites have you seen being shut down?
I've seen quite a few sites go down. Whether it was legal issues or financial, I don't know.
It might have to do with how MasJ is from India... kind of makes it harder to use the laws to force his hand.
haha yea that could be it.. or the fact that it has partnerd with AT games?
erm... arent the file servers loacted in the US?
File Servers Can Be Located Anywhere, If The Owner Isn't In The US, He Isn't Bound By US Laws. Then I just Thought AQbout Copyright Laws. Hmmm. Great Discussion.
*cough* wrong *cough* ;) Actually, if the U.S wants to bad enough, they can get you, very easily even. Unless the government the offender is in hates the U.S and the EU then most likely they'll get caught. There are numerous ways the U.S can get jurisdiction and influence to catch the offender/s. It just depends whether it is worth the money and time. ;)
There used to be a great EMU site a couple years ago, it was called Plasticman's Emulation site I think...that site had a lot of cool roms and stuff if Im remembering correctly...:cry:
At this point in time its not worth the money and time, to try to stop people like MasJ... Hell the U.S. goverment is not doing much about Internet Piracy in the U.S...Quote:
Originally posted by mushindo
*cough* wrong *cough* ;) Actually, if the U.S wants to bad enough, they can get you, very easily even. Unless the government the offender is in hates the U.S and the EU then most likely they'll get caught. There are numerous ways the U.S can get jurisdiction and influence to catch the offender/s. It just depends whether it is worth the money and time. ;)
The FBI recently finished a sting operation that spans several countries. I forget how many people have been arrested so far, but it was mainly PC related release groups. As for emulation related sites, I doubt they'll care much unless the community shoots itself in the foot and shares too many current generation titles. If say, microsoft or sony were to feel threatened you can bet they would contribute a couple million dollars to thwart the piracy. I doubt it'll come to that though, at least any time soon.
Can you give me a news site about that, i want to read more about the sting.
Thanks. I would think that the FBI would have better things to do, but oh well..
Its strange that "The DOJ described warez groups as 'hierarchical, highly structured organizations'" kind of sounds like a Terrorist Cell...
The ESA regularly tries to shut Emuparadise down, we aren't anymore exempt from it than anyone else. However, generally the ESA is far too lazy to actually go through the site and list off everything we have. So we comply we whatever simple demands they've made (usually to remove a couple roms) and we continue on. We've also been rather lucky in that usually the EP webhost favors EP rather than the ESA.
Also GundamGuy is right in that we're small potatoes compared to other websites. Pretty much all of our roms are one or more generations behind what's currently sold in stores. The ESA is likely far more concerned with shutting down sites that trade in PC titles, and GC and PS2 ISOs.
They basically have a problem with what we share on our BT Tracker. Most of the times the things they complain about aren't even put up by us. As far as the website goes, they keep making demands to remove this and that, sometime's it's Pacman, sometimes it's Final Fantasy, but nothing big ever.
I don't think they really look into emuparadise through all those login screens and those disclaimers, otherwise they would've something to say about it. Plus, the stuff on EP is pretty much obsolete, except for the GBA roms, but we'll remove those if they complain too much ;-).
Echelon got busted :( no more dc rips from them i guess and the leader at Razor1911 got sentenced to :eek:50 months in prison:eek: and a :eek:700,000 fine:eek: thats sucks arse :hotmad: