Activision suing file-sharers RIAA style

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jasonnc80 said:

twesterm said:

Godot said:

Chemical said:

ChichiriMuyo said:
twesterm, you are the biggest tool around. I'm starting to think if a major corporation sent a representative up to you and they kicked you in the nuts that company would become your favorite.

 

 

 

Oh that's a great gif ;)

 

I really don't agree with you twesterm. Pirates may be bad but bullying individuals (who usually are the most defenceless that's why they're the ones getting sued) isn't the solution. In my ethics class, I did my paper on the subject. My question was something like that: "Is it correct for big corporations to defend their IP with legal action?" And my answer was no for small pirates. The ones that they need to attack are the ones that make piracy possible: hackers, torrent site admin, huge uploader (such as klaxxon), etc. Attacking the average Joe is terrible for their image and has no effect on piracy whatsoever.

 

So you're basically saying that as long as you're stealing something small from something big you shouldn't be punished if caught?

That's not really the point at all.  The fact of the matter is that Activision no matter how big or how profitiable they are will only have a limited resource of time and money to pursue these pirates.  Going after the small guy when there are much bigger fish to fry does nothing but make a symbolic gesture which does NOTHING at all to curb the illegal downloads of their products. 

Your thread title right there should illustrate how futile these lawsuits are.  We know how well the RIAA's tactics have been in their quest to stop piracy.  Yeah it sucks that you may have to overlook the small "criminals" here and there but we live in the real world and sometimes you have to ignore the smaller guy to go after what you feel are the real criminals.  This type of utopian and unilateral thinking won't lead to any meaningful results.  I think a good comparison would be how we've handled the "War on Drugs".  Trying to prosecute every crime no matter how big or small.  That seems to be working really well...

Err ?

I'm pretty sure on those 100k settlements Activision made more money out of the settlement than it cost them in lawyer fee and such to get the settlement...

 

So all I hear in this thread is that there are bigger fishes.

Where exactly are those fishes and are you guys so sure that the big pirates represent a majority of the pirated software ?

I would think the huge majority of pirating is done by small fishes on P2P network actually..