The Hangout: $20 says this HO is locked at 4000 posts.

[Evans]

I understand that (though I've never heard of any site actually getting in trouble besides what EP's already attracted from Square and Namco- Cease and Desist letters).

Same answer as to skinner. I get the notion behind it, though I find the conclusion somewhat silly for a site already based around copyright violations.
For links, I mean the editing out and rules against links to other websites that may perhaps host PC related things.
One of my very first posts at EP was a link to some abandonware site or another, to a download of X-Com: UFO Defense. The thread was initially OK until Banned came in and pointed out that said abandonware site also hosted a crack for Half-Life 1, and linked to it, and then a mod/admin came in, deleted the links, and locked the thread.
For a more recent example, see Panda's warning to not link to demonoid or any torrent site with news about it, due to the "no warez" rule. See what I'm saying? Nobody's ever in the history of mankind had trouble for linking to someone else's site that in non-related sections has stuff that someone might object to.

How is it silly for someone who's already dabbling into illegal crap to stay away from the stuff that gets real attention from authorities? I, for one, am glad this site and others like it are around for me to enjoy and mooch of/contribute to. Whining, calling hypocrisy, and saying that wanting to stay away from trouble is silly is all, IMO, like spitting in the face of those who allow such sites to be. In other words, those who bother paying for you to bitch. You say you don't care, yet you bother posting about it. Doesn't quite add up to me.

Oh, that. Yeah, linking to warez and porn directly or not isn't allowed. You can claim all you want that you didn't do it willingly or that you didn't mean for the users to actually wander off into the site you linked to, or that if they do it's their problem and not yours, but it still isn't an excuse. If it were my site, would I mind it? Not one bit, but since I don't make the rules, it's not really up to me.