(08-01-2009, 03:43 AM)KHRZ Wrote: There's a few reasons why downloading games are illegal, even if you own them (It's legal in some countries because of lacking copyright laws, but few people lives there)
First of all, is that the people sharing you the game, is breaking the law by distributing it. By downloading the game you contribute to them breaking the law. (And you "support" them) Also the games have specific regions (PAL version and NTSC version are two different products, also there's country codes, so in court they may say you didn't have the original product if you downloaded another version than yours)
the above is just the obvious I could think off. Anyway, for the forum's sake, all discussion of downloading game is forbidden due to contract with the host, which obviously doesn't want affiliation with any possible illegal activity.
BTW I'm not an admin and I didn't ban you.
Yeah, I understand. After all the forum host wouldn't want any company sueing them for discussing the downloading of their games. Although at one time when I was younger I was told by someone that while it's illegal to distribute copied games it isn't to download/purchase copied games...I guess that's not true anymore (if it ever was), is it?