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I mean they are. They allow hundreds of thousands of players to sideload a modded APK in using their developer mode. This is detectable but they tacitly allow it because it sells a lot of copies of the game and the headset.

And I am thankful they do!



My web browser lets me pirate music, but Mozilla doesn't get sued for that.

There's zero liability for Beat Saber or Meta here. People distributing the pirated music would be liable.


MegaUpload got in some trouble for file sharing fwiw, so it's not impossible


They host the files. Beat saber does not.


Good point


MegaUpload was unarguably distributing content.




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