I'm not quite sure where this explosion came from. But I was always under the general impression that everyone knows about the piracy that goes on and the reason why you don't link to various sites to get binaries is due to how google site tracking works where if you start pointing to sites that endorse piracy then by default you are a pirate and are subject of getting the entire forum blacklisted. I'm just a random viewer on the forum and not a moderator but it appears that this forum is playing a balancing game between being here for the users while being the official forum for ouya.tv . This means that they have to play a hard stance against piracy or else developers would simply walk away. Due to the actions of what Ouya has done in terms of endorsing emulation does lead to a problem that by helping a user to get their emulator working you are in fact being a conduit of piracy. A lot of the emulators require BIOS files in order for them to work properly which is still the property of their respective owners.

A lot of the forums during the early days of Xbox homebrew would simply mention a name of a file and tell you to find it on "the usual places" indicating if you typed said name into google then you'd find out. Was it hard? more annoying then hard as anyone caught with a XBE file on their website gets a nasty cease and desist from Microsoft! EDIT: I later found out that even mentioning a filename is against the forums rules. Thus, you can't even help people find the file they need. Wow..

But as you go through the motions you start to understand how your console worked, how the directory structure was laid out and how to place files in the right places to make it all come together. In fact if it wasn't for sites like that I probably would have lost a few xbox's to harddrive death as the very nature of finding the key and pairing a new harddrive had legal issues. I guess the point is. Maybe it was never supposed to be easy? Maybe it was intentionally difficult so that as a user you learn about how your console worked so you in fact become a better user. And as you learn you then understand how to push said console to its limits further and further.

I'd like to think it's okay to talk about history and theory of piracy, even get into morality issues if you so desire. But the point where it goes too far is say "oh hey bro! here's a APK right here! go nuts" is probably the breaking point.