Das Sacrificial Board steht nun auch unter massiven Beschuss der Software Industrie. In den letzten Tagen haben einige große und kleine Softwarefirmen reklamiert, über das Board würde Software illegal verbreitet. Der Hoster nahm diese Beschwerden zum Anlass, das Nachrichtenbrett vom Netz zu nehmen und sich juristisch beraten zu lassen.

Nach einer kurzen Auszeit ist jetzt das Sacrificial wieder im Netz, aber es gelten ab sofort verschärfte Regeln. Auch muss man sich jetzt registrieren, um das Board einsehen und Nachrichten absetzen zu können. Aber im Gegensatz zu vielen Szene-Boards im deutschsprachigen Raum denken die Macher des Sac nicht daran, auch die Neuregistrierungen auszusetzen.

Aber noch immer tummeln sich einige Vertreter der Softwarefirmen auf dem Board herum und kleben an jeden verdächtigen Beitrag einen Link. Besonders hervor tut sich ein Nick mit dem Namen SinisterMinister (übersetzt etwa Unheilverkünder), der ständig Mitglieder des Boards verwarnt. Das dürfte ein Vorgeschmack darauf sein, mit was deutsche Boards in naher Zukunft rechnen müssen.

Hier die Erklärung des Boardgründers 1/2cut im englischen Orginal:
As some of you may be aware Sacrificial has been the centre of attention for a group of software developers (large and smal) over ther last few days. Due to this the server owning company, whos machine that we live on suspended our account while they sought legal advice.

It transpires that some of the "new visitors" to Sacrificial believe that we share illegal software. This is obviously incorrect as the only sharing that is undertaken here is information and assistance between any and all viewers of The Sacrificial Community.

There are of course private conversations that are undertaken by registered members that we have no control over and by their very nature private. We do not have the ability to know what is said in a private conversation but do ask that the below mentioned points are remembered.

To clarify our position and to ensure the longevity of this community I ask that no sharing of anything is undertaken in public except free speech, advice, general chatter or correctly licenced software (such as software licenced under the GPL, as shareware etc)

If you are ever offered software, from within this community or elsewhere, please remember that depending on what country you are in, what licence the software is released under and the lawyers interpretation of law you "may" be breaking the law. Please keep this in mind and do not share any software that could put yourself or this community in a position of breaking laws.

To this end and to assist in the end of needless spam postings from some members of the software development world who feel wronged, there are some forums within the Sacrificial community that you now do not get access to until you are registered. Registration is open to all (including software developers) and so there is no less chance of you being able to become a member of this community, you are just less able to do it without logging in.

Thank you for your cooperation. Apologies for having to add another rule. But in this as everything else, you have to evolve to survive.