What if a game was taken out of the hub if it wasn't viewed much/used for a month or two? That would clear up any of the older games.

Garthor wrote:

And free them from a good deal of possible lawsuits.

I still don't see how they could be held accountable in the first place. If they started deleting them, that would mean that they'd become accountable, and would have to delete them from that point on. Right now, they only delete things that are blatantly fraudulent or illegal, like "1000 icons for 10 dimes!". Fan games and illegally acquired fan games are the responsibility of the fan game's copyright owner or designer to take care of.

As it stands, the stuff that doesn't show up in the offical DM or BYOND channels is no-man's-land. I think that it should remain that way.

Garthor wrote:

They CAN be held accountable because they didn't delete them, though I doubt anyone would care, you never know.

They can't be held accountable, because they haven't made any official claims that they will police the content of the Hub on unofficial channels. Once/if they do start policing the content on unofficial channels, they'll/'d become accountable from that point on for anything they neglected to remove.


Let's use Napster and nuclear missiles as analogies:

Napster made definite claims that it was music sharing media -- they didn't provide the warheads, but they provided the missiles' fuselage.

BYOND made no claims that they're for fan games. As far as they're concerned, the people can build all the nukes they want, since they're a completely detached entity.

That's why Microsoft can't be held responsible for inappropriate content that appears in the MSDN, for example.