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Mummelmann on 14 February 2011
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Ail said:
SeriousWB said:
Ail said:
Mummelmann said:

Someone leaked a developer build online, isn't this the fault of whomever leaked it and not pirates themselves?


Some dude left his car opened with the key in the ignition.

I guess that means whoever steals the car really isn't that bad of a person.....


How is that even remotely similar?  You can't be that dense surely.  One is negligence, the other is specifically breaching an NDA.

That doesn't make the people that get said build off torrent any less guilty.

Which is the point Mummelmann was trying to make...


No, that was not the point I'm trying to make. I'm pointing out what ssj12 said; there has been a security breach and a failure to keep copyrighted material out of the possesion of the public by Crytek. Yes, torrenting games is wrong but someone at Crytek is wholly to blame for the torrent to even exist in the first place. Same goes for other games, books, movies or software that gets leaked; someone leaked it and people torrent it. The person(s) who leaked it is to blame for the leak and the pirates can be blamed for the torrenting (but not the leak itself).

Personally, just to clarify that I'm not a huge game torrenter, I usually only torrent TV shows. They either arrive a couple of years later here or they don't arrive at all on TV so it is pretty much my only chance of watching them at all.