That's a very nice idea :) and I think it's pretty safe since youtube usually has good precautions against pornography.
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This topic is full of bullshit.
Retro's will never be legal
Retro's will never be legal cuz the fact we're using their assets without permissions of Sulake. Jabbo isn't a legal alternative either, it's using their images.
Fansite's are legal under a terms of agreement, they have permissions of Sulake to use their images.
The only way to create a legal MMOCC, create your own game.
I think this meme will sum up your post perfectly.
http://i.imgur.com/PI1DWqW.png
Well, Jabbo was great about a year ago, same with KekoCity (I don't know the others). But for modern computers they are written quite bad, because they use div's etc, whilst nowadays it'd be much more efficient to use HTML5 and canvas as they are sometimes even hardware accerlated and thus can react much faster than using dom injection.
You can't legally stamp a copyright or trademark on 'code', if it means be HTML, CSS or even Flash. But they can protect their trademark, and their artwork/graphics. Emulating something isn't illegal itself, because it's not bypassing or obstructing their actual services which is their actual hotel (habbo.com) - With thus being said, a emulator or CMS developer can't be breaking any laws unless they are using either their trademark name to help promote such software or interlectual copyright, which is their graphics and SWFs. There's not much you can do to protect your interlectual property, because one can come up with the same ideas as another. It's like saying someone can put a copyright on a black pixel, but at the same time, other people are going to use the black pixel for their own work.
There honestly shouldn't be a fight between retro owners and Sulake, there should be no 'war'.. Sulake isn't loosing anything because of retros, if anything, they're gaining from retros. They're gaining from retros, they're gaining their knowledge in protecting their property, they're learning how to secure their product. Without retros, they wouldn't know how to secure their work, without retros, if they did update to something big, they wouldn't be adding as much SWF security to it. It would all be wide opened just like it was back in the day.
This topic sucks! Habbo retros are illegal its because we mimic there game, if there was no Habbo you wont even have an idea in making this game.
Couldn't we try to make swf files, cms's, emu's for free and it dosent make like "Copyright Of Sulake"?
Is this thread still going? What the hell. Just keep sticking to this point, there is no way to make habbohotel retros legal. You are all using their copyrighted software(client) and images/content.