Posted: 6/12/2022 3:25 AM
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CloakTheLurker
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I saw feos' post about not allowing IPS patch hosting on TASVideos, yet there's a download link in the Movies page for a bunch of hacks. Also a search for "IPS patch" brings up download links in the results. I wonder what should be done about that?
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Posted: 6/12/2022 3:30 AM
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AntyMew
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You're taking it out of context. To my understanding, feos was talking about the idea of patches being hosted on this very website, which would future-proof the patch, but could easily land the site a DMCA. Linking to an external download link is the lesser of two evils here
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Posted: 6/12/2022 7:32 AM
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Yeah if we become the only source of some hack and nobody else on the internet is interested in hosting it, that makes acceptability of certain hacks entirely depend on stability of us hosting the patches. We take stability and future sync seriously so we would do that, but some hacks may contain copyright infringing content. So it turns into a paradox where our publications of hacks start depending on us hosting illegal content. We can't go that path. I don't think we can even officially endorse any given 3rd party hosting just for us, because if it has to go down we will have issues again. So it makes the most sense to share future-proof-ness with all the people who want to maintain hack databases on their own, instead of exclusively for us. Even if we mirror all our patch files privately just in case, we can't expose them to the outer world.
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