And also, how do we stop it? Ban the members that post links? Delete all the topics with links to non-copyrighted material? That would go down well...Not.

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More importantly, it is NOT the responsibility of this forum to police another company's copyrights. Simply listing a link is not actionable in any way. It's no different than a news station reporting about a tabloid making a libelous claim for which they are being sued. The reporting station is not actionable under any circumstances. And you realize posting a link to almost any unoriginal YouTube content is no different. YouTube is the biggest collection of copyright violations in the universe. And Apple even officially endorses YouTube. If someone has a moral objection they can either turn the tide of the majority of members to their viewpoint (and implement draconian rules) or abstain from clicking. Frankly, we owe our entire community to these others who do risk legal action in posting this software. Further, what people do privately, whether stated explicitly here or not is none of this forum's business. There is no law against "intent to violate copyright", only the actual infringement.

Frankly, let he who is without ONE piece of illegally copied software in his collection throw the first stone.

But I do say again, "The better part of valour is discretion".

Just for the record, lets review the forum rules:

Please obey the lawAny topics that are discussing matters that are legally or morally suspect, and that might get the poster or the forum in trouble will be locked. The last thing we want is a lawsuit against us because someone was discussing how to pirate the latest version of , how to hack the FBI, etc. We relax the rules for software considered "abandonware" (see below), but will still lock or remove topics at the request of the author or publisher. The 68kMLA will never condone software piracy.

Abandonware

We consider software that is no longer under development by it's authors, and that support is no longer given for, as "abandonware". As time goes on, the majority of software for older Macs will fall into this category. Fundamentally, the only way of getting much of this software is "illegal", however we allow discussion of sharing of older software for the greater good. However, we reserve the right to lock or remove any topic at the request of the author or publisher.

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I think it's pretty clear what the forum's position on this is and links to such software is a perfectly acceptable way of discussing it and users offering to assist each other is well within the scope of this website.