Activision suing file-sharers RIAA style

[Lord N]

twesterm said:

 

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. 

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.

 

1) The legal system is supposed to hand out a punishment that fits the crime. It isn't supposed to impose the punitive fantasies of corporations and ignorant, uninformed zealots. The use of such draconian measures doesn't reflect well on these companies, and as has been seen when the RIAA tried this, it has no effect on the people who are doing it.

2) DRM such as Securom, Starforce, Sony's rootkits, etc, do nothing to stop anyone involved. Instead, they just cause computer problems for people who bought legitimate copies. The people who are using P2P obviously aren't going to be affected by it, and as a matter of fact, it may cause people who may have bought a legitimate copy to instead turn to P2P because they know that the copy that they obtain from that medium will have had the DRM removed.