The top retros are either hosted in the US or UK I believe.Yes, Habbo do have copyright, Habbo can't take down big retros because they are offshore hosting, and it would cost Sulake loads of money to take them to court
What is offshore hosting?Yes, Habbo do have copyright, Habbo can't take down big retros because they are offshore hosting, and it would cost Sulake loads of money to take them to court
The user count of retros is increasing and the user count of Habbo is lowering, so they may take action soon
ALL HABBO RETROS, whether big or small, are illegal. And yes, Habbo has it's copyright, I believe the Copyright Infringements Policy are these ones:Who ever said Retro's are illegal?
Does Habbo have a REAL copyright, and if so, is it against building retros?
Why wouldn't they have taken them down by now?
What do you guys think?
Another fact. Most customs made are from the Habbo Hotel furnitures instead (e.g. morphing fountains and eggs, recolouring thrones, golden toilet with a turd etc..). No one ever made a unique furniture that is not seen from Habbo. Even those statues and trophies.If someone was able like you said to create their own images/swf without anything to do with the copyrights habbo one.
Then yes, it would be alright... But I haven't seen anyone able to do that yet
If you were to completly redesign everything and redo it all, then sure, it would be legal.So, If somone were to make furni LIKE it, but not steal, would it be illegal?
Actually it's not enough ... it's too much.They couldn't take them all down even if they wanted to, people make retro's everyday. It would also cost them too much money and they probably don't even care (They get enough money anyway!).
I think he is talking about that Yifan_lu guy (phpretro creator) who go noticed from the sulake and quit with Habbo. It's true it was on other forums, he was talking about it when he was leaving,What world do you live in? Show me one news article on this "event".
The EMU's are all coded by users. That is not what is illegal. What is illegal is the SWF's. Phoenix EMU is perfectly fine and legal. The retro becomes illegal because of the swfs.I don't believe that Sulake will take action on those who create the Retros but those who have created the program to help run the hotel. Like Phoenix and others. Aaron would get a multi-million dollar sue case and Sukake would win because of how much is riding on it. His name is labeled on everything.
They are illegal basing on laws and the copyright Habbo has.No shit Sherlock.
Not unless you're a game dev, like what happened with Fresbo World.Actually if you made your own SWFs, which used the same characters as habbo, it would still be copyright as it would still be their images. Plus no one in the habbo scene could replicate their SWFs exact, even with different images
More of a phishing, that guy phished if I am not mistaken... I came into a website or rather a news portal about Habbo items worth dollars stolen by a Dutch.Habbo & there copyright , But I think Habbo is more interested in scamming from Habbo and shit , like i think in was in 2006 or something a dutch guy stole $1000 worth of furni on habbo guy got arrested and I think there interested in these crooks than people making fake versions of there game.
True, but since they're so many Habbo retros, it's hardly appropriate to take them all to court, and anyway, even though retros do exist, Sulake still make millions of dollars anyway