Ail said:
The Anarchyz said:
Ail said:
The Anarchyz said:
Ail said:
ameratsu said:
Ail said:
I'm pretty sure that if you download software of a pirate torrent website you can't legally have much expectations of it being malware free...
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Depends on the site/source. I don't do public torrents so I'm at minimal risk of getting malware. I doubt many people would risk their account on a private torrent site by uploading a bad copy.
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I didn't say the risk was low or high.
All I said is that if you get malware from such a site you can't blame anyone but you...........
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Again, if your company makes the software and it's proven that the malware in the pirated copy is from your respectable and serious company (and not put by a cracker or an outsider to your company), then it doesn't matter why you did it, you're in trouble...
Windows is a classic example, some pirated versions of Windows have malware, but the affected can't sue Microsoft because they don't have any proof that Microsoft put that code there, and if they did, and if there's not definitive evidence they'll never admit it...
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And so are you for admitting to having downloaded the pirated copy, so are you going to sue me ? Because you will end up being guilty too :P
Anyway I woudn't go as far as Twestern.
I would just make my software realize it's been pirated and after a certain period of time corrupt the save game....
That should annoy the shit out of anyone playing the pirated copy and there would be no risk of lawsuit there..........( try to sue me because your pirated copy's save game is corrupted and can't be loaded anymore...)
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Ok, i'm assuming that you live in the US, so before i refute your first paragraph, do yo live in the US?
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I do but am not a US citizen :P
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Even better, the mayority of the US citizens don't know the US legal system better than the non US citizens... I practically live in 2 countries because of work, one of them is the US but i am also a non-US citizen...
You must know some of the "wonders" of the US legal system, one of them is that not everything is based on the written law, most of them are based in precedents, jurisprudence, and if it is a jury trial, is not even about the law, if you convince those 12 people then you win the case, and sometimes the case doesn't even get to court not because of the law, it's because of avoiding bad publicity and court expenses...
So if the pirate sues you with a great lawyer and definitive proof that the malware was put by your company, who losses the most? your company or the pirate? your company, because even when the guy was a pirate, your company is supposed to be serious and if that case get to the media, no one will trust your software and BAM, your company lose money, if it is a judge, he'll rule according how the law applies to the charges of the lawsuit, if it's a jury they'll rule according to the lawyer that convinced them, and in both cases the charges are against your company... Last there is the settlement option, where the case doesn't get out to the media and you lose the amount accorded between both sides.
The best way is before doing that, consult with good lawyers what is the best way to protect your software and your behind at the same time in case of a lawsuit... One form is taking away the online play...
I put this post on the previous page but i'm not sure if it was read...
