You must not conduct illegal activities on this message board.
This includes posting messages asking for or providing stolen software,
cracks, warez, pirated, or any other form of illegal software.
Hitsquad and the vast majority of musicians and music lovers who use this
discussion forum do not want any illegal activity here.
Copyright Control Services
and several music software companies
regularly visit our message boards to find
information they can use against software thieves.
All log information about each and every message is available by viewing
the source HTML code of the message. This information includes the Time
and Date the message was posted, domain name, IP address, and browser
software of the person who made the post. When compared to an Internet
Service Providers log this information clearly identifies the
individual internet account holder responsible for each message posted.
Various authorities can then use this information to identify the
person responsible for dealing in stolen software and take legal
action against them.
The following information is a sample of some of the data your web
browser sends to every web site you connect to:
- Your Computer's Current IP Address: 38.103.63.16
- Your Web Browsing Software: CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
The web server also automatically knows the time and date of every
connection:
- Date / Time you requested this document: Saturday, 17-May-2008 15:13:58 GMT
Please note that neither Hitsquad nor any other internet user can use
this information to identify you or find any of your personal details such
as your address or phone numbers. The authorities in most countries around
the world however do have ways of using this information to track you down
and take legal action against you if you break the law.
Please read all license instructions carefully when downloading any
software. If you only want Free software then please look for any
software labeled 'Freeware', 'GNU', or 'GPL' (General Public License).
You can get hundreds of completely free music programs from our
Freeware Guide.
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