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wraggster
September 16th, 2008, 21:39
I know about Sony and Bleem and VGS PSX Emulators for Windows/Dreamcast but have any sites been forced offline or indeed threatened for hosting homebrew/emulators, just curious if any have or if theres a way they could.

I suppose in some ways i wonder if they could using some sort of rule in a court take down homebrew communitys,

VampDude
September 16th, 2008, 23:13
Not that I'm aware, though I did try and join WiiBrew's forums the other day and I never got my confirmation email.

quzar
September 17th, 2008, 01:38
I remember reading at least once about sites losing hosting, but that just forces them to move their hosting to a country that doesn't care or a hosting company that won't be bullied.

Darksaviour69
September 18th, 2008, 12:05
Boob got threatened for hosting woftinstine shareware, the people from ID thought it was "return to woftinstine" and sent 2 warnings to the host. cyrus64 sent them an email explaining it was the shareware version of the original but they ignored him, so he had to take it down.