New rule: No hiring/offering uploader services for third party websites.

[eLight]

Dear KWWHunction Members

Recently we've allowed a some what deregulated market place and community cooperative like sections and we've decided that it's started to go a little too far. For this reason, as of immediately, we'll no longer be allowing threads where you can hire "uploaders" or offer your service for "uploading". This is for all sections.

Legitimate or not, this is not a practice that we wish to allow and following a few days for our members to adjust to these changes, any threads in a similar nature to "Hiring uploader" or "Offering uploader services" will result in an infraction/ban. Paid or unpaid, makes no difference. This isn't a move about limiting freedom of speech, not at all. We simply wish to cease "market" activities on our boards for these services.

The issue is not with the file hosts themselves, rather the methods of hiring and offering these services for third party websites. Threads such as "I'll upload popular movies for $1 a day" just pushed us over the edge... We do not recommend copyright infringement as a tool of making income (or at all, for that matter). If you're a user on here at the point of offering/hiring uploader services and even paying for them on the premise of copyright infringement: get a job instead. You can still freely discuss file hosts, websites, etc. We value our members freedom of speech. This is a forum, after all.

You can still post about hiring staff and everything else for your websites, seeking partnerships, advertisers, etc, this is all fine. It's important that members understand where the line has been drawn in the sand. We're limiting a very precise type of thread only.

The activity we're banning is also discouraged via the PM system.

eLight Reviewed by eLight on 9th Jul 2011. New rule: No hiring/offering uploader services for third party websites. Dear KWWHunction Members Recently we've allowed a some what deregulated market place and community cooperative like sections and we've decided that it's started to go a little too far. For this reason, as of immediately, we'll no longer be allowing threads where you can hire "uploaders" or offer your service for "uploading". This is for all sections. Legitimate or not, this is not a practice that we wish to allow and following a few days for our members to adjust to these Rating: 5

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Addition to the above:

The above rule mentions paid uploading services (buying/selling of paid uploading services). This includes, but is not limited to, the autobot threads selling services on a lease/license/owned, etc etc basis. They fall under the paid uploading category and will be locked and disallowed too.