Epidemik

Read the article here.


Essentially, those companies are now going after the people who downloaded the games rather than just the site, and uploaders. 25k UK suspects are threatened with a £300 ($563) fine. Moore of EA says its a bad idea and he is "not a huge fan of trying to punish [the] consumer"

MadTaco

Interesting. One has to wonder if it'll be effective in deterring future piracy in some way. The out-of-court settlement is rather small compared to what they might realistically sue for. I honestly never thought that any loose confederation of companies would actually do this, though. I also wonder how they found hard enough proof to convict these people.

Looks like this is more of a pseudo-scare tactic than anything else. Maybe it'll make some people actually start caring and think twice about firing up a torrent for every new game that comes out.

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Brutuz

I'm willing to say that it will backfire onto them, since they may not be able to provide adequate proof that they pirated the game.

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Dman

Stuff like this has been happening in North America for a while. Although I do disagree with the term consumer, since that implies they have actually bought something. Its not like the people who were downloading this stuff had no idea what they were doing either.

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Evostance

Seriously, who downloads games anyway. They dont work online and theres no support and sometime they are a real pain in the *ss to get working.
I think the last time I downloaded a game was about 6 months ago but I already had had the game on pre-order for 2 months before had. it just my pre-order never got delivered until 2 weeks after the release date and I couldn't cancel my pre-order, otherwise I would have gone to the store and bought it.

I'll never be able to understand why PS2 games and Xbox games could run off the disk, yet with PC games you HAD to install them. Its not like the graphical side of things was that much better on a PC

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Cryptedvick

you are sooo wrong dude

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Evostance

You would know

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Cryptedvick

yes i do

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K3VL4R

Wow, whats next? Ok here`s the next headlines:

"RIAA and others will demand settlement of 100 Trillion dollars from 6 billion earthlings they claim illegally shared music online."

MikersSU

Doesn't believe in punishing gamers...hmmm. How about getting rid of Securom and activation limits then? Jerks.