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 Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 14:23 Post subject: CDP sues W2 pirates. Update: listen to community and stop |
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http://torrentfreak.com/drm-free-witcher-2-cashes-in-on-bittorrent-pirates-111207/
| Quote: | However, for CD Projekt this is not necessarily a bad thing as they had plans all along to cash in on piracy.
“Yes we will track illegal file-sharing hoping people will find the game good enough to actually change their mind and be willing to pay for it,” CD Projekt’s Agnieszka Szostak told us earlier.
Although this initially sounded quite reasonable, away from the spotlight the company followed in the footsteps of so-called copyright trolls, by signing up for a so-called “pay-up-or-else” scheme. CD Projekt hired a law firm and torrent monitoring company to track those who illegally downloaded and shared the game, and has been sending them hefty cash settlement proposals.
The price CD Projekt is asking through their lawyers is slightly higher than what gamers have to pay in stores, to say the least. Over the past several months thousands of alleged BitTorrent users in Germany were asked to cough up 911,80 euros ($1230) to pay off their apparent debt to the company.
As is often the case, these mass settlement schemes do not exist without collateral damage. Aside from targeting many people who indeed downloaded and shared the game without paying, CD Projekt’s lawyers are also wrongfully accusing people who have never even heard of the game.
After all, an IP-address doesn’t identify a person, and Wi-Fi piggybacking is not unusual. But CD Projekt, who don’t want to bug legitimate consumers with DRM, apparently take this collateral damage for granted.
The company, however, is no stranger to the business model which a US federal judge recently described as a shakedown. In 2008, large numbers of Internet users started receiving letters from notorious file-sharing lawyers Davenport Lyons in the UK demanding cash settlements. Among those letters were demands for payment on an Atari-published game with a familiar title – The Witcher.
At the time the actions were widely criticized in the UK by consumer rights groups and the media, mainly because of the many wrongful accusations. Despite this critique, CD Projekt continues to pursue BitTorrent users in Germany, probably because it earns them good money. |
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garus
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 14:37 Post subject: |
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Sin317
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 14:42 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 14:43 Post subject: |
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This shit happens all the time in my country. Why is this news?
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garus
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 14:48 Post subject: |
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sausje
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hahah yea Germany, hence why my dad always gives me the usb hdd with a list of things to download 
Poor Germans 
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 15:28 Post subject: |
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I will never understand how blackmail such as this can be legal.
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ixigia
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 15:30 Post subject: |
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What a stupid move, they won't achieve anything useful with this. Paradoxically, it even contributes to damage their image..
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 15:49 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 15:51 Post subject: |
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| bushwacka wrote: | anyway, torrents-->  people who are too fucking stupid for "proper" pirating kinda deserve it |
I use private tracker, and its as good as usenet |
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 15:55 Post subject: |
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| besthijacker wrote: | | I use private tracker, and its as good as usenet |
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 15:55 Post subject: |
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Better yet for me. Since I got access to a private tracker I haven't used usenet. I like that it's more organized, among other things.
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 15:56 Post subject: |
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Used to stick to private trackers, but having to seed everything was a major pain with my slow-ass upload.
Been using Usenet for the past year or two, works great.
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Przepraszam
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| dezztroy wrote: | Used to stick to private trackers, but having to seed everything was a major pain with my slow-ass upload.
Been using Usenet for the past year or two, works great. |
I donate for VIP. It's pretty much same amount of $$ if pay for usenet
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 16:17 Post subject: |
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What the fuck happened with them? Oo
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 16:32 Post subject: |
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Garus, have you ratted us out? Polak bastard.
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| Posted: Tue, 13th Dec 2011 16:35 Post subject: |
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Yes, I'm sure it's the lawyers fooling the poor naive developers into this.
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