If we're informed of specific instances of trademark infringement taking place on our servers we would deal with them promptly, we don't have to resources to check every single private message sent though so we don't have knowledge of any infringing material (which is usually a requirement in related laws like DMCA, OCILLA etc in order to establish liability). In your example we would take the role of Rapidshare which doesn't go around checking every single upload made and then removing them, they await notification from the relevant trademark/copyright holders before acting.
And yeah I've already told the admins to update the rules ages ago, they're a bit busy right now though.
That's the grey area I was referring to. Again, grey = black in this case. Allowing transactions for "other" is essentially allowing transactions for real money. It's simply a matter of interpretation. Because I say colored instead of nigger doesn't change the fact that I'm talking about a person of African origin, even though colored could mean many things.
In the case of rapidshare, they only remove files that are reported to be infringing of a copyright. If the file is never reported, it's never deleted.
EDIT: I think the rapidshare analagy is flawed actually. You don't sell the Neopoints yourself (or "host" the "files" on your own server), you simply provide a method for other people to sell their Neopoints. So you would be more like The Pirate Bay than rapidshare, and there's all sorts of copyrighted stuff on The Pirate Bay for the aforementioned reason.
This is what you
should say.
"All real money transactions are expressly forbidden in
any context. The use of the word "other" to implicate a real money transaction is also forbidden." At least, that's what I would say.
Btw, when I say "you", I mean the owner of this forum.
Edited by leptooners, 27 March 2011 - 09:39 AM.
