Quick note to everyone in here. Keep the thread on gaming, keep it on LEGAL gaming and no trolling.
I got a number of PMs this evening about game piracy being discussed in here and possibly other threads in this forum. Cheapy runs a great site for all of us, I'm having a hard time believing any of y'all would want to put him in legal jeapardy by talking about anything as foolish as piracy on his boards. I'm still waiting for links to the specific posts and I hope those posts are deleted by the poster before I have to do anything about them.
In the meantime, I made Cheapy and the mods aware that there have been unspecific reports of such talk going on within these forums and I'm sure we'll all keep an eye out for any violations of CAGs' ToS. But if you happen to see any of these posts before we run across them, please report immediately (either using the Report Post feature, or PMing a mod).
Game piracy is one thing I did not specifically deal with when I did Internet Security with the Feds & Customs, so I'm not up on the best or most direct legal contacts for reporting such matters. But for any of you who know of any game piracy going on
this link and
this ESA link are both generic starts for reporting piracy offenses. I don't know the xbl contact offhand, but here is MS's email for piracy reports:
[email protected] Nintendo has
[email protected] for reporting piracy and Sony has
this form for reporting piracy issues.
Now that that's been quickly addressed, we get to go to less harmful if not less annoying trolling. If someone is giving you hard time two things should be done: Report the Post (either using the report feature or PMing a mod you're comfortable with) AND
add that person to your Ignore list. We have the luxury on this site to block out the idiots who annoy us. We don't have that luxury in real life. This site is supposed to be informative and fun, why waste your time reading posts that do nothing but irritate you when you can simply
turn them off?
This thread is about to be edited severely. NO more talk of pirating. If more posts pop up, please report and/or PM me, Cheapy, who ever you feel comfortable reporting the violations to.
Also, I added a poll for y'all.