Question When did GBAtemp stop being a Warez website?

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“About half a year into the forums life, the staff had to come to the decision that ROMs would no longer be available to download from GBAtemp, and all warez and other illegal material would be ruled out on the forum. The reason this was done is because a lot of members and the staff themselves had really come to appreciate the forums and each other, and didn't want to risk losing the community they had built up. So to avoid legal issues and to make sure GBAtemp was never shut down, all ROMs, ROM links, warez and more were now strictly forbidden on the 'new GBAtemp'.”

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Scarlet said:
24 October 2002 was when the forum opened, but there's no exact date on the Wiki about when it stopped the warez. Only that it was about half a year later:

https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/GBAtemp.net#History
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E1ite007 said:
Around late 2003/early 2004 I think.
The exact date? I dunno, I was 4 years at the time.
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Chary said:
“About half a year into the forums life, the staff had to come to the decision that ROMs would no longer be available to download from GBAtemp, and all warez and other illegal material would be ruled out on the forum. The reason this was done is because a lot of members and the staff themselves had really come to appreciate the forums and each other, and didn't want to risk losing the community they had built up. So to avoid legal issues and to make sure GBAtemp was never shut down, all ROMs, ROM links, warez and more were now strictly forbidden on the 'new GBAtemp'.”

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Chary said:
“The reason this was done is because a lot of members and the staff themselves had really come to appreciate the forums and each other, and didn't want to risk losing the community they had built up”
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Aaaaawww how cute!
Not kidding, it really is cute!
 
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I don't get it, you can't download roms anymore but you can still download themes and save files?
 

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