| vlad321 said: "Getting their money back?" So those people respectively stole 100k worth of games? That's about 2.000 games given that each game is $50. Even though I've been playing for near two decades now I doubt I've even reached 200 games. Somehow I doubt anyone has ever played 2.000 games, much less in the amount of time we're talking about here, pirating games didn't really start off so big up until the turn of the century. I don't think that many games were even made, much less by Activision themselves. The smaller people should be punished, but honestly, 100,000? I mean... if I went and stole a gold watch and got caught I doubt I'd have to pay 100k, and that watch probably csots a hell of a lot more than the $50 for a video game. Maybe even jail for a few months if the owners were particularly anal, bit nothing even close to these sums. |
Remember, when you torrent something you are in fact supplying other people too. Even if you don't seed, you're still supporting those people who makes those things available.
| Chemical said: twestern, You seem to think that as long as these companies are doing it for the cause of anti-piracy it is ok for them to pretty much do anything. What you fail to realize is that your blind support of these corporate tactics will result in YOU, the paying customer, to be screwed over. Sony limits downloads of media from playstation network to a single download:http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080921-playstation-3-video-drm-two-strikes-and-youre-out.html Just google Securom causing computer problems and you will get many forum posts and articles. EA store allowing only 6 months to redownload the content that you paid full price for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_Link RIAA suing a dead old woman http://www.betanews.com/article/RIAA_Sues_Deceased_Grandmother/1107532260 Punishment must befit the crime. When I see that pirates who SOLD games and made thousands of dollars get sued for that money, then I think they got what they deserved. When somebody who cant represent themselves has to pay 100k to a huge corporation for stealing maybe a few hundred dollars, then I see something wrong. And here is another fun fact, lawsuits like this usually cause more piracy and in places in which Activision wont be able to reach them. Most of the pirate servers nowadays are outside of US and other countries with idiotic copyright laws and usually cant be sued. |
How are they hurting me when I'm not the one pirating software? I've never had a problem with Securom, DRMs, the RIAA, or whatever. If you do the crime, you have to be prepared to do the time.
It doesn't matter if it's a big corporation or a small mom and pop store, they aren't the ones that fucked up and they in no way forced those people to steal their software.
I hate sounding like a broken record, but these people knew what they were doing when they store that software and the knew the consequences. They chose to pirate those games, and it's their own fault they have to pay those hefty fines. Not Activisions.
