Attention:- Something you need to be aware of when posting

[AmigaFan2003]

Okay, there is something I need to make you all aware of when posting.

Over the last few weeks I have had to edit posts that explicity refer to or condone software piracy. There a two issues with posts that mention software piracy.

1: Discussion groups are regulary trawled by bodies such as FACT, RIAA etc. Any references to softwre piracy can be and sometimes are investigated. Any resulting investigations put this discussion group at risk of closure and may even open the board owner to prosecution.

2: We have many members that are actively involved in creating software. One of those members actualy created code for a peice of software that another member openly admitted to pirating! These individuals put alot of time and effort into creating software and will not be too pleased to hear of them being pirated.

I am not for one minute so nieve to imagine that no one in the community will pirate software, but if you feel the need to discuss it, then please do so away from these forums.

Due to the legal aspect of this issue, we will have to take a zero tolerance stance. Up until now posts have been edited, from now on they may be deleted. Frequent abusers of this policy may have to be removed from the discussion groups indeffinately.

You have been warned.

[Firejack]

Honestly I have no problem with the subject personally as I don't agree to most of the Software copyrights as they need a big overhaul so they are fair. Especially when you consider maybe half of all programs have "borrowed" (stolen!) code from other programs to work.

The reason I don't like people discussing this subject here is purely down to the fact there are several people in the community who earn a living from writing software and I feel its pretty insulting towards them to be discussing piracy in front of those whose living they are talking about taking away.

[Conri]

First of all, in some ways i really don't understand why this forum is public, for matters like this.

but i do have a few semi-related questions.

you say boards are regularily trawled by groups like FACT etc.
surely only the top 3 boards are public-access? I understand of course it is possible for someone to work for FACT Etc.
I'm not asking this regarding the policy, just out of a general curiosity, especially regarding NDA's, and to what extent we can talk privately with other community members on the board. (that question is a perfect example reason why i don't understand why this is a public forum, especially as Free chat is Private :O)

That is to say, surely unless you are a member of one of the TNGC usergroups, you can't access anything but the top three forums?

the same applies to search engines scanning our site does it not?

[AmigaFan2003]

the same applies to search engines scanning our site does it not?

Nope.

Here's an experiment for you, find a topic that is "closed" to the community, copy a sequence of text and type it into the google search engine. It will show in the results list and the text will be viewable on screen. Only when you actually click the link will you get a "permission deined" screen.
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[Theodora]

ok i'm curious now, how the hell does that work?

[Firejack]

Erm.. it doesn't. At least on the 5 tests I've done

[Crasp]

thats because your on auto login fj

[Firejack]

Still doesn't work

[AmigaFan2003]

You might need to choose an old post so Google has it in it's cache.

[Conri]

You might need to choose an old post so Google has it in it's cache.

an example please? i've tried loads of old posts.

[Guest]

Lol - I can't find any either! Seems maybe one of the phpbb patches resolved the issue.

Regardless of that fact, I'd rather not walk up to a tough looking guy and punch him in the face just on the off chance he might be a pacifist.

Hope you can see what I mean there.

Edit - That was me - AMigafan2003 - logged out to test it!