[ddhoward]

Can you explain why you think that it is acceptable to violate US law and risk the entire site being taken down?

This site has already been a victim of a DMCA takedown recently; all links to Sourcemod Anti-Cheat have been removed, and must STAY removed until this issue is resolved. Prior to the removal of all SMAC links and source code, the forum's web host apparently threatened to take down the entire site because of this US law violation (i will try to find the citation). Now, imagine a DMCA takedown notice coming from a $2.5billion corporation because we helped people pirate their product. That's a lot more likely to mess up the entire site than a takedown by one dude over a shitty third-party plugin that sits on another third-party plugin that sits on yet another third party plugin.

ANTICHRISTUS, I invite you to familiarize yourself with the forum rules, specifically the part about DMCA compliance.

https://forums.alliedmods.net/misc.php?do=showrules


In case you don't understand it yet, when people say "DMCA," they are referring to the United States law known as the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act," which took effect on October 28, 1998 when it was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.