Anti-leak policies

As a community of hard working content creators, we recognize the importance of trust and the honoring of each others control over their work. Unfortunately, there are websites and communities centered around taking other people's work and distributing it for their own profits.

Leak sites are the worst example of this, and this is how they exist:

• Distributing unlimited copies of other people’s work to generate traffic
• Generating ad revenue from the traffic being directed towards the leaks
• Charging exclusive bulk access to other people’s exceptionally popular work
• Offering bulk access to other people’s work for those that assist in the leaking
• Extorting content creators into paying them not to leak the content on their site

Every time you view their ads, you help them stay up.
Every time you purchase a rank on their sites, you help them stay up.
Every time you share a copy of a product, and it falls in their hands, you help them stay up.
Every time you pay them not to leak your products, you help them stay up.
Moreover, you encourage them to continue doing the exact same thing to your peers and fellow creators, because it has proven profitable with you.

BuiltByBit and our community is in the position where we have the influence necessary to make a difference.
We can make running these leak sites less profitable for the thugs behind them.
We can make leaks of unowned content more legally troublesome to maintain.
We can discourage more sites from popping up in chase of easy, unearned profit, and as consequence, we can denormalize the theft and leaking of our community’s products.
Together, we can reduce the number of our fellow peers who are threatened, blackmailed, and extorted for their money and their work.

The following policies apply to leak sites and leak communities:

• Users found to be paying off leak sites/communities will have their accounts suspended and banned if payments do not cease.
• Users found to be requesting leaks, cracking, decompilation or other services from leak sites/communities will be banned.
• Users found to be paying or purchasing from leak sites/communities will be suspended and banned if payments do not cease.
• Users found to be a member of any leak site/community staff team, providing them services or otherwise aiding them will be permanently banned.

BuiltByBit has sole discretion over what qualifies as a leak site/community as far it applies to our enforcement of these policies.

We also encourage everyone who is able to, fight for your rights. Take legal action wherever necessary, and know that BuiltByBit will support you in every way that is within our power and authority.
A wiki with information and resources on how to get your content removed and actively fight to take down these leak sites can be found here: https://builtbybit.com/wiki/copyright-violations/

Moreover, if you ever need to visit these sites for good and necessary reasons, use ad-block filters to remove the overlays/pop-ups which attempt to force you to disable ad-block and generate ad-sense revenue for them. These things are merely encouraged and not enforced, however, we nonetheless ask for your assistance in fighting with us for the protection of everyone’s property rights.

Let us look forward to a more honest and respectable future together, forged through our combined efforts.