Don't get me wrong, I get why they don't want this place to become awash with links to pirated stuff because it's just not a good look, but banning links to file sharing sites can't have anything to do with legality. Every well-known file sharing site has a wiki page with links to said sites so it can't be illegal otherwise wikipedia and tons of news websites would be breaking the law. Linking to the content itself is probably a different story. I expect that's illegal.

This was dumb, you should have done this privately. I don't care if you think it's hypocritical, you still did this totally wrong IMO.

What you could have done is just leave it alone.
If you know it's a site that gives links to pirated content, maybe you just shouldn't bring it up?
As others have said, if it's that big of a deal to you, you should have just gone to the admins privately instead of posting it here.
As for banning piracy, the staff team is not banning it everywhere. As far as they're concerned, you can pirate content all you want as long as you don't discuss it here.
Did you just find another site for obtaining free audio described content? You can use it and share it with your friends, but don't post it here.
Not only are they concerned with the legal consequences of allowing this sort of content to be shared, you also have to realize that there are game developers and content creaters on here.
If they saw the staff team allowing piracy of movies, TV shows, or even mainstream games, what would they think?
It would probably leave them with a bad taste in their mouth, and the chances they would want to create anything for this community would decrease significantly.

exactly, it was handled

I'm sorry, the pun is too easy...@32, you could say we're going in rings? LOL!!! Ah well. The matter of Crazy Party is troublesome, due to the fact someone clearly put effort into it, making it not a typical asset flip and it does advance the arts. Though this is the stated goal of copyright law, its draconian nature kind of makes me think that yeah, Crazy Party is a threat...

The mods said that only new games would be subject to these new rules to be fair to the devs and to not make the mods have to deal with 2 decades of backlog, if I remember correctly. That was after crazy party came out, so...

@37: Yes, they said that. It is one of the stupidest things they ever said. I don't even know if they consistently stuck to it because you're telling me that a game that at the time was always near the top of new releases, a topic with literally millions of views doesn't deserve to be acted on? This entire thing is and always has been based on image. Only applying it to new games negates the entire point because new games don't have topics with 3000 posts and 2 million views, generally speaking. I will go so far as to say that there are games that are basically the face of this forum, and CP is one of them. Not the top one, certainly not, but one of them. It's one of the things you'll see most on this forum. So if you're going to have this rule, at least enforce it consistently. To be honest CP doesn't need audiogames.net anyways, I think I've always said that they should've removed its link because it's stupid not to do so when it's probably one of the examples that brought on the whole damn discussion in the first place. Pragma respectfully said that he would not be entertaining the question of getting new sounds for the game, and in doing that I guess he called their bluff. It wouldn't surprise me if this line about only new games started after that. I know this post was pointless and this entire discussion is pointless, but I felt like making it.

At Lucas I'd go as far as saying that the mods basically let their pants down and are standing butt naked in front of the hole forum.
You see, Jayde hugely announced that games with stolen assets will be cracked down upon and the first game they try doing that, it doesn't even work. That hole policy failed before even taking off.

Greetings Moritz.

Did anyone recognise how many times people wrote the name of, let's say, the most popular site full of pirated content here, in this very topic? And noone cut out those words.
Now those who maybe didn't even know, already use it happily.