| Lostplanet22 said: I was wondering, if I am an gamedevelopper and wants to stop people downloading my game (illegal);.. |
lots of publishers pay people to join torrents and report ips that are in the swarm to their provider so that the provider can issue "if we catch you one more time..." warnings. these warnings are a scare tactic and nothing ever comes from them because no one in their right mind is going to be sueing people who are pirating. for pirating to work efficiently (especially for games or movies that are big files) you have to have houndreds of people all participating.
companies pay (at least) 100$/hour to hire an attorney to sue people and one case can take a pretty long time, they would never make their money back as many people wouldnt have enough to pay for the lawyer, the fine that theyre issued, and theres no real guarantee that they'll win; there have been cases where a person claimed they dont own a computer and the company ended up paying for all the fees that they incurred going to court.
its just not feasable for companies to enforce piracy laws, they only stand to loose more money if they try and strongarm people in court. even if they do win theyre likely to loose money
@ CaptainObvious
its really annoying to go open a page and have a song start playing
