Woman fined £16,000 for illegally downloading a game
I actually just read about this, thought it was funny, all for a damn pinball game(which I grabbed for the Wii, not even that fun)
*Edit* I just copied/pasted from a news website. But I hear it was for sharing the game, not downloading. But, how did she get the game in the first place? Was it hers? Also, the first paragraph is a separate story, but sort of linked together, so I posted a bit on each.
Computer game firms have declared war on illegal downloads demanding money from thousands of families who got releases on the internet for nothing.
Top games developers, including those behind The Lord of the Rings, are serving notices on 25,000 people across the UK telling them to pay £300 to settle out of court. If they refuse they risk being taken to court with plans to target the first legal actions against 500 people who ignore their letters. The action is being taken by five companies: Atari, TopWare Interactive, Reality Pump, Techland and Codemasters. They are responsible for top games, which as well as Lord of the Rings also includes the Colin McRae Rally series and Operation Flashpoint. The group have appointed law firm Davenport Lyons to force through the action, as estimates say six million engage in file sharing illegally.
This latest move is part of a wider offensive by companies to protect their copyright on the internet, which has seen the music industry also trying to tackle it. Earlier this week Isabella Barwinska, who at the time lived in Leytonstone, east London, was the first offender to be made to pay damages to a manufacturer of computer games.
She was made to pay £16,000 after being taken to court by computer game manufacturers TopWare Interactive, who were seeking to protect their copyright. A British woman has been ordered to pay US game developer Topware Interactive £16,000 after illegally downloading one of its PC games Dream Pinball. Some experts are now warning the floodgates could be opening for other game (as well as music and film) companies to try to claim money from illegal file-sharers. As reported by MCV, the Patents County Court in London ordered the woman to pay damages of more than £6,000 and costs and reimbursements of £10,000 to Topware Interactive for downloading the game.
“We haven’t played Dream Pinball, but we’re guessing it probably isn’t worth spending that much on.” ———lmfao
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Comments(107)
Ouch – Hope she can appeal that
She should have been given the death penalty.
She should have been given the death penalty.
She should have been given the death penalty.
She should have been given the death penalty.
if it was me we would all die waitiing on that to get paid
at least its only in the UK, well right now anyway
i think it worth the money since the game is amazing and it takes you to a new level of games. she should just pay the money and play the game with her family
Only £16,000? That’s pocket money for most Brits.
WHAT!!! @Rex. – Thats 6 months wages!
I like the whole 300 squids business because it’s a fair warning that seems to not have anything to do with j3w companies trying to have people executed for stealing a song or game. As a thief, I think it’s a fair deterrent and I’m in favour of it. If I copped a £300 fine, I’d throw the towel in (pirating, not life’s towel).
Bite me
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http://rapidshare.com/files/42823671/SG_Dream_Pin.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/42827532/SG_Dream_Pin.part03.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/42842525/SG_Dream_Pin.part06.rar
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PASSWORD
Str|k3r
Here is a more worrying story http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/gadgets_and_gaming/article4569180.ece
They can take people to court, fine people etc, but I’m damn sure their own kids or other family members, maybe even themselves do the same thing; Downloading movies/games/music.
Everyone downloads games/movies/music these days.
pocket change…. i lost more than that running for the bus this morning…
come on guys enough with all the dumb stupid comments, if your gonna post at least say something usefull
@10 the first part of my story is about that. lol funny sh–it
she was a dumb slag from east london, probably sells crack and didnt use protection in her job (a prostiture) or on her pc (firewall router encryption) soooo who blows ???
technically arnt we all illegally downloading??.. via torrent,warez??.. guess ill have to stop all of this when i get to london..damn.. any brits here???
actually-you have this story wrong-she was fined for sharing the game on p2p,not for downloading it-the fine is totally stupid but the facts are not as reported in your article-this story has been on all main uk news channels and she was fined for sharing,NOT downloading.
is this just catching torrent users or rapidshare etc aswell?
Get your facts straight. She was fined for UPLOADING, not downloading. There is a difference.
I find it funny you make this post after three game releases are posted…
what you do is when you get caught, destroy your whole HDD somehow, and call a friend to run out and buy the game for them.
then you could say that there was no proof and you have the legal copy.
but couldnt somebody say that they ripped it from a friend?
From the tings i read in the US was that its legal to back up stuff and give it to friends for free, its only illegal if you distribute them and charge them.
i guess she was uploading too right?
well rapidshare ftw
poor britons anyways = / luckily where i live at politicians are finally doing something by capping those ridiculous fines @100€
Torrents..use a proxy and use something like peer guardian.
@ffs,plutonick thanx man… now i got a bitmore courage to download stuff here..
but hey torrent users are technically considered file sharers because you SEED…
i dono how it goes with downloading from rapidshare,etc…
Bu tcan they trace direct downloads like megashare, file factory rapidshare??
as i said before….. im british, she is a dumb slag, probably spread on kazaa etc, she left her pc on a while on holiday or playing this great game too much !!! Forgot to stop uploading to 1000 others – dumb slag.
Just open up your wifi router and let everyone use it and blame it on your own stupidity and your neighbors.
idd 17..
i read they charged her the cost of the software multiplied by the number of downloads.. she must have been seeding for a really long time :S
@johnny
i’m a brit, ur no more likely to get caught here than you are with any other antip2p country imo, there’s always ways around it too.
Also, i’m a brit…these money grubbers need to get shot..:P
Just download if you know what you’re doing. LMAO
Detect.Block.Portect…
Piracy FTW!!
This is why shouldnt give the game away only take it
I bet the companies spent a lot more on legal fees than they got from the lady, stupid move I should say
Everyone downloads games/movies/music these days
———————–
I’m actually surprised by the number of people who DON’T pirate. I can’t figure it out actually. I don’t listen to music much these days, but I see all that stuff on the shelves and shake my head. I was at a friend’s the other day setting him up with a game. As I was copying the crack over for him he said “I’d rather just pay for it than go through all that”. He really said “all that” about copying a crack. He’s got a good PC and has no idea how to use it. Needless to say I never need worry about having to load discs, which makes it even easier, not harder.
I never did understand people.
I was at my family’s last month and my Mom said “If the feds ever saw all the movies and stuff you have, blah blah blah”. My brother defended me, “it’s not like he’s out there selling the things”. My Mom then says “that doesn’t matter to them at all”. I then decided” so you’re saying I should sell pirated movies at work?” and then she got mad and hit us.
Longlive leechers rofl )
THis story changes depending where you read it. Some sites say she uploaded it and made it available and greedy US games company are making an expample of her. Other say the single mother who is unemployed uploaded it and made it available to everyone. Fines of ludicurous amounts to someone who cant pay it is crazy, it wont solve anything lol ..why Dream Pinball ? thats what i wanna know , of all the games to get caught out on ..sucks. Lucky shes not US citizen she prob get lethal injection or sumthn . The worlds going crazy ..correction gone!
MAKE sure you have no money or assets, then you cant be done or fined and have complete immunity to damages …. although could be bummed in prison i guess ?!?
Which is why usenet is better – no ISP is ever going to provide details of which users are downloading from different binary newsgroups since it is THEMSELVES who are actually hosting the illegal material on their own servers!!
how the fook can 1 person downloading a bad game cause 6000 quids worth of damages when the game costs at most 50 quid! and part of that 50 is for the disc itself which she hasn’t even got!!!1
lol 32
this has been going on for over a year, read these you’ll see much more about what has been going on. it might take you hours to go through all the posts though.
peer guardian is limited for what it is, time to quit using torrent to dl games and seeking other means suggested.
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31051&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=17a491822680f0e8a7d56de409d37857
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=39877&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=0c4397b6403dfbbe6d5ff3047d4e5dec
damn luckily i dont live in the uk so im save here in Venezuela and i think i’ll be save for the next year haha anyone in Europe and USA is going to be warned in the next year but in here its all free and nobody gives a sh!t you can go to streets and buy illegal stuff from little markets so im all save and you people are going to be paying thousands of money.! LOL
LOL # 27!
@31 britain is a country controlled by c-nuts, we need a robin hood as all the government and toffs do is the exact reverse and steal from the poor !! (he says in his mansion smoking a cuban)
#16 @ jonny,
To answer your question i have never downloaded any thing illegal in my life time i just come here for information and information sharing that is all i like to just look at the download links
has anyone else noticed… that everytime, its a woman that is caught in piracy not men.
Sorry this is off topic, but does anyone know why theres a page missing on here, there as a page (2nd) that had nero & other stuff on it ny ideas & also is The Hulk dvdrip R5 really out or is it fake? Thanx
codemasters a biggish company but all the others are just trying to make money by suing people cos no one buys their games
I wouldn’t even take those games listed if they were legitimately offered to me for free.
all im saying is that this is wrong cos she was uploading not downloading.
I’m downloading using torrents and encryption, not direct downloads.
What prevents Rapidshare from giving away information about their users? If Rapidshares becomes a popular way of pirating, they will be sued themselves.
@40 yeah have fun with your cool president. wasnt venezuela the country where simpsons were banned from tv because they defile the youth?
im totally consumed with envy seeing how you buy(LOLZ) games for 2-3$ at a salary of 300 bucks/month (probably soon more @21.9% inflation) because it would take you weeks to download them over your awesome 56k connection
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Once again I direct peeps to the revelations contained in the Wikileaks post about the ongoing ACTA negotiations. If anyone out there can be bothered to stop abusing each other and paying attention, they are at:
http://wikileaks.cx/wiki/ACTA_negotiations_brief_on_Border_Measures_and_Civil_Enforcement_2008
The July edition of New Scientist also has an article on this.
The internet is going to be subjected to governmental control and few peeps are ever going to have a say in how it is controlled because the method of adoption is by way of a treaty rather than legislation. Any country that wants a trading agreement with another country registered through the World Trade Organisation (WTO), about the only way these largely commercial treaties can be legally enforced, will be instructed to sign up to ACTA if they want to WTO register the agreement.
That covers just about every country.
I’m not going to list all the draconian powers this agreement gives copyright holders; they are too many and the overwhelming risk is that some fool/troll in here will sidetrack any discussion with silly argument over some little piece of this comprehensive attack on internet freedom and freedom of speech. Incidentally those amerikans who imagine they will be able to stop this by invoking ‘constitutional rights’ should think again. amerikan courts have always tended to favour comercial issues over the Bill of Rights and by making this a part of an international trade treaty the architects have got the courts past halfway there.
I want freedom of speech!
I want freedom of speech!
I want freedom of speech!
I want freedom of speech!
I want freedom of speech!
I don’t want an anarchy nor a life where rich guys be more richer and poor people be more poor. Uploads, downloads, P2P, Scene, RLSLOG; EVERTHING FORWARD TO WIN, AHAHAHAH!!!!
what keeps rs from giving out information? well they are seated in switzerland where downloading for private use isnt illegal and not even the music industry gives a f… for downloaders. has anyone anywhere ever been convicted for mere DOWNloading? after all of course you can only trust them but if you dont trust rapidshare whom else? in all the years as the by far largest 1-click-hoster they have never given out anything
if you’re still afraid you can of course always go back to buying your stuff =)
@ Movies And Mp3s
Your an Idiot stop spamming your crap in every thread!
Dream Pinball costs £26 . Should of just brought it in hindsight lol. For those that seem to think you cant be found come on be realistic. If “they” WANT to seek you out they will and are more than able to do so. If they can track the original sender of spam down across the globe from country to country and monitor extremists emails and track peadophiles down on a global scale it would be a walk in the park. Chuck into the mix the amount of money companies pushing the crack down have of course they can hunt you down. Its the big fish they wanna fry first. Sadly though now and again they make an example of someone. It cost money and time to do so and marketing companies know its not the answer to the problem to go after your core market. So they hope it will deter us .. mmm dont think so ,Whats that saying.. Dont hate the player ,,hate the game
lol
They know they can’t win the war against PIRACY, so they target one woman, in an attempt to discourage others.
Good luck with that.
Notice it says “File Sharers”…AKA “Peer 2 Peer”. When will people realize that P2P is obsolete.
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I put in the link on the border control acta stuff rather than the internet control which is here:
http://wikileaks.cx/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_(2007)
sorry bout that but if you care at all that this net control now gives nations the power to tell other nations what they can and can’t have on their web servers, because the content is ‘illegal’ in their contry, you should care about this. these controls won’t just stop so-called piracy they will be used to control speech on anything a government may choose.
It won’t be a sudden overnight change; the control will be incremental creeping up on us until all the advantages an individual got from the net have been negated but alla the hassles – spam, corporations sharing data about you etc., will remain.
lol
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Theater ….: 01.08.2008
Stores UK ….: n/a
Source ….: NTSC WORKPRINT
Runtime ….: 112 mins
Video ….: untouched
Audio ….: n/a
Subs ….: None
Extras ….: None
Menu ….: No
Ripped ….: n/a
Size ….: 4.10GB
Rar.Count ….: 89×50MB
IMDB.Rating….: 5.3/10 (14,046 votes)
IMDB.Link ….: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0859163/
P L O T
In the Far East, trouble-seeking father-and-son duo
Rick and Alex O’Connell unearth the mummy
of the first Emperor of Qin — a shape-shifting
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ok guys,yes this looks to be a workprint
we were already in the process of repack
due to corrupted rars,i should of checked
the source more carefully really
my bad.enjoy this repack with uncorupted
rars and proper tag
G R E E T Z
Doesn’t anyone find it odd that the majority of people being charged with illegal downloads seem to be of the type that only download a simple game or a few songs here and there. Seems to me that the so called authorities are targeting the people curious about the net and what it has to offer and not the the hard core downloading like most here. Much easier to control the uninformed sheep then the more brazen and aware.
No they are actually doing this for torrents as well. It is done from a company based in Switzerland who then send on the ips to a legal company then attempt to extort money out of people.
And no you don’t even have to upload 1000 copies they just scan the ips from the tracker and see who is connectible. It’s a big pile of steaming crap.
The best thing to do is blacklist all swis ips using peerguardian or the like.
“Five of the world’s top games developers….”
LOL
Five of the WORLD’S TOP games developers? THE WORLD?!
Anyone actually downloading ANY of those developer’s games needs a f***ing brain transplant. Waste of time and bandwidth.
Hell, if they can’t make money selling their products, might as well sue the guys who are finding out how crap they are without being ripped off. Lot more profit to be made there.
LOL, Dream Pinball is worth £8.50 (according to Amazon).
@64
The best thing to do is blacklist all swis ips using peerguardian or the like.
would you mind sharing the swiss ip range blacklist ?
we should all boycott these game developers games
The top five game developers who are desperate for some money
Atari
TopWare Interactive
Reality Pump
Techland
Codemasters
I read al of your comments till Number 66 (even the spam ones). Think of it guis, if they wanted to end up all this Piracy Staff, they would have done it when it started, but they didn’t cause they’re afraid of people. You can sue 50-100 People, but you cannot sue a Planet. It’s Equilibrium. And i also think that the sued women is just a fictive person and it was invented by them to scare us, maybe she’s the head of the Plan, you never know. Only thing i know, piracy will never stop, as long as they will try… Look at it, last summer they caught RELOADED and some other well known PC Games Release Groups. How come there still are RELOADED releases today, with every new PC Game? they got picked up by the Feds and CIA staff not by local authorities, and they’re still out there on the streets releasing the goods. I think someone is having some interests here… don’t you ?
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Seems very harsh considering most of the world and his wife are “illegally” downloading *something*.
So is it P2P and torrents that are being traced?
Does anyone know how difficult it is to pinpoint a download AND a user using newsgroups?
I ask the question because I’ve used newsgroups before now to restore my music collection (damaged media etc.)
I got pissed off with having 500+ CDs knocking around my PC and decided to give them away, then downloaded exactly the bits of my collection to have it all on my HD, simply because its so much easier.
I’m considering doing the same to my DVD collection, I’m now wondering about the legality of this…
Oh, I’m all British and stuff. But I can’t say I have the slightest concern about this. They picked on some poor, clueless woman who wasn’t able to defend herself. And that’s one case in how many years of piracy?
Tch. TOR networks, torrent encryption, wireless routers, etc. Yeah, come and get the rest of us.
She could just play stupid but instead she was stupid….
*snort* @52, what are you drinking as I want some of this. Lets destroy your argument one step at a time
The internet is going to be subjected to governmental control and few peeps are ever going to have a say in how it is controlled because the method of adoption is by way of a treaty rather than legislation.
(WRONG! In the US we have a law that is written in stone, NO treaty can superceed US law no matter WHAT it says! So it makes no difference what treaty is signed, if it violates US law, then it cannot be enforced. And as for the Government controling the internet…maybe in YOUR country, but in the US there are extremely few laws that deal with the internet…and even these are hard to prove. Take for instance the lady that sued the RIAA and WON! Here we are innocent until proven guilty, you are probably used to being guilty until proven innocent.)
Any country that wants a trading agreement with another country registered through the World Trade Organisation (WTO), about the only way these largely commercial treaties can be legally enforced, will be instructed to sign up to ACTA if they want to WTO register the agreement.
(WRONG! The US has nailed China and India and a few countries in Japan for stealing our tech and not paying royalies for it and the US did it in the WC, and even while a member of the WTO. The WTO tried this crap with us and our Ambassador told them to get bent, we are not signing and if they dont like it then tough too bad. Then he informed them that no treaty superceeds US law…PERIOD! Shut them up in a heartbeat)
That covers just about every country.
(see above)
I’m not going to list all the draconian powers this agreement gives copyright holders; they are too many and the overwhelming risk is that some fool/troll in here will sidetrack any discussion with silly argument over some little piece of this comprehensive attack on internet freedom and freedom of speech.
(which is exactly what you are doing now< so what’s your point?)
Incidentally those amerikans who imagine they will be able to stop this by invoking ‘constitutional rights’ should think again. amerikan courts have always tended to favour comercial issues over the Bill of Rights and by making this a part of an international trade treaty the architects have got the courts past halfway there.
(Sorry wrong yet again. If this was the case as you claim, then the 4396 people that have sued the RIAA and won, would not have won. Nor would colleges and Universities have told the RIAA to go blow themselves. And let us not forget the 285 people that posted dvd screeners on the net and they got a slap on the wrist..being banned from receiving screeners, big deal; it is not like you cannot find them on a couple hundred sites if you tried. So do us all a favor and speak of YOUR country’s laws and not of US laws since you clearly have no idea what the bloody heck you are talking about and are only speaking or typing to hear the noises made when you do it.)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/42823671/SG_Dream_Pin.part02.rar
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PASSWORD
Str|k3r
Note ripped it of google so don’t sew me!!
(I didn’t even bother to download this a game…)
peer guardian is a piece of junk. don’t be fooled. they could use any residential ip or a proxy. it’s a pointless effort and has been since it’s inception (back in the days when edonkey/emule was king). FYI
If I tap into my neighbors open wireless network… could that still be traced to me?
@79
Nop
@76 lending vast sums of money to people in trailers…
bye bye USA hope you enjoy poverty
LMAO ROFLMAO XD
Really nice game:
“Dream Pinball features six different tables, real-world physics, and the option to choose between marble, oak, ivory, and gold balls.” ahahah
6 DIFFERENT tables??? :O Woooow That Many tables :O
real world physics??? :O dam it i was expecting phantasy , world physics
4 kinds of balls??? :O So many balls! i cant even believe
All that and just for £8.50… ups i mean £16,000 xD
I surely hope that game gets the game of the year for several years :O
oh and 8 + 2 = 10
, thanks to my calc 
huh? justice? or cruel and unusual punishment…
I’d go nuts and start shooting the lawyers and judges. When the body count starts adding up they’ll think about changing the law. Thats ridiculous.
Private trackers my ass.
I ain’t giving my info to no one.
If private trackers seriously become the norm, I’ll just hack into the damn private trackers. That has to be the absolute dumbest approach I’ve yet heard.
Yeah, sign up. Open registration on turning yourself in.
What needs to happen is one of you code monkeys comes up with a web site that automatically moves itself around the net in pieces. A movable site. A site that moves four times a day.
Imagine pirate bay strapped to the back of a supersonic jet, flying around the world internet.
That’s where things are going. Whoever can make that happen… well… that dude or dudette achieves scene superstardom.
Sometimes you gotta see the forest for the trees, people.
Private trackers, my ass.
She should sue them for making her look like an idiot. Also, she should sue the game company for making her so addicted to their game that she had to steal it. She also should sue the govt. just for the hell of it.
If I got slapped with a piracy lawsuit I would wipe my arse with it. Then find the people suing me and kill them. End of story.
Killawife?
That’s a rather radical approach m8…
England, you gave away too much to be safe. Now you are prisoners on your foggy isle. While the rest of the world continues to evolve, your citizenry will become like cows in a pasture – mooing about whatever new freedom you’ve lost.
Is it too late for ya? God, I wish not.
A radical approach is the U.S. nuking both Russia and China for allowing their citizens to sell copyright DVD’s and Games on the street.
Eso es lo bueno de estar en un pais sub-desarrollado como colombia, no molestan por estas cosas y podemos hacer lo que se nos de la gana… lastima por la pobre que le toca pagar ese dinero por un juego que ni vale la pena.
Lastima por ella.
I have no idea what you just said but I’m sure it was meaningful and on topic.
- Word.
This woman was punished for being helpful to another human being. No money involved. Isn’t that mindbending huh? I thought law and order was there to protect the little guy?
I will never, ever support any mediacompany ever again. I’d rather die, trying to kill some CEO’s. They’re the real bad guys of our time.
My mate got a letter from Codemasters solictor’s last December they tracked his ip on Bit Comet downloading Colin McRae Dirt for 360. he had to pay £500 or they would take him to court!
The whole thing really shook him up!
92 said how awesome it is to live in a third world country like colombia because he isnt bothered for downloading crap
of course that’s worth having the highest murder rate in the world
I too received an official “Warning” letter from Davenport Lyons. I was using UTorrent and dolwnloading the game “two worlds”. But because i was using utorrnt and not a free site fro example i have to upload the file while downloading also to get speed.
So after them getting my address from my ISP they wrote me a letter asking for £300 for downloading and £200 for uploading.
I spoke to local lawyers but they didnt have a cluse on what to do, so i went to they Citizens advice beuro and they advise me to egnore it as they could only take you to small claims court.
Anyway i think i am very lucky here as i was reading in computer active magazine that 4 more ppl got taken to court by Lyons and made to pay £800 fine and its still not final. thay may need to pay damages to game producers.!!!
Mask ip in anyway you can… or move to NZB
If you live in the UK, are a P2P user and your ISP is one of those “Big 6″ that has been in the news recently, I suggest you switch providers, otherwise expect warning letters and/or fines.
The fact that she got caught tells us that she is a n00b (aka typical computer user) when it comes to p2p safety. its not her fault, she was probably too busy being a dumb woman. Let me guess what her computer is like:
*factory standard Acer/Dell/HP etc.
*Norton or McAfee security (cos they always come with standard computers) probably past the free 1 year subscription.
*p2p program either Limewire or KaZaA, autorun at startup (cos shes dumb)
*no p2p security (cos she’s dumb)
*shared folder full of top 40 hits (cos she has no taste in music and she’s dumb) and a pinball game
*Full of spyware/adware.
I read that the pinball game has sold 800 copies but was downloaded at least 12,000 times. Sounds like an awesome game, anybody have a torrent?
ok so someone answer this.. is it safe to use rapidshare,FF,netload..etc for downloading??.. or can the company’s still find u and sue your ass???.. that is the bigquestion
@96
Colobia is “only” 4th
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_sof_pir_rat-crime-software-piracy-rate … Read the top 10 of that list. Seems funny that the majority if not all those countries wouldn’t be considered developed countries. But when you look at the bottom what do you see??? Hmm. Maybe that’s per capita but it didn’t say.
Is there a demo of this game?
Not!
So she only used download version for testing purposes. A.k.a DEMO!
And sharing of any stuff is not illegal.
Sony Bravia is intellectual property of Sony trademark, if I wan’t to share it, would I have to pay ot go to jail?
Really US and EU is become more money grabbing every day. But time will come when oridinary people will stand up and fight against oppresors (politicians, lawyers……etc).
So be aware of your actions goverment.
lads
do you think is a real thing? Maybe it is just big show for others- be good boy- do not be a pirate.
So is it a case of finding a tracker you can trust ? For instance Demonoid has its inferno tracker, and is a reliable safe as in content etc. Or do we think that if demonoid got busted they could quite easily go thru every account ??
sounds all a bit crazy. I do think its has alot to do with where you download from.
and how the hell do you mask your ip ? on bitcomet u can see it clear as day ..but i loves my bitcomet:) ranked Guru
Hopefully the 25000 will all contest, I’d love to see how the courts deal with that huge waste of their time.
Why do companies like sky and virgin media give you a monthly allowance if they dont expect you to upload/download??
I get 40gb per month and stick to just under that so surely the companies should get a percentage off the companies like sky for this not the customer. we get an allowance so we should be able to use it how we want. We get the option on phone tariffs with free minutes or texts so why not with downloading etc.
Regards
futureofmusic
Scare tactics .. nothing more, nothing less
I honestly don’t know if this news is real or fake. What I do know is that I live in a country where most new PC titles come out late (in most of the cases the delay is about 1-2 months) or never. There are a few exceptions. For example Bioshock was available in 28.08.2007. One new title costs around 50 euros. Shops and distributors never lower the prices. For example I saw a copy of Bloodrayne festering on the shelf with a price of 45 euros.Lower prices are achieved when a game is launched very late, like 6-8 month late, and still then price is way higher than the actual prices from Amazon.co.UK for example. Lowest price I could find for Splinter Cell Double Agent in my country is 40 Euros. Sometimes the delays are caused because of some atrocious form of localization (usually the printed manual and the cover). Anyway my monthly wage is about 900 euros, and it’s pretty decent for my country. From those money I have to pay bills, buy food and so on. Basically I cannot afford to buy more than let’s say 4 new titles a month, and even that with difficulties. I tried to buy online. The price + shipment don’t come near the price of the games on the shelves. But they don’t send games to my country. Of course some online shops send to games to my country but in my opinion are not trustworthy. PC games seem to be a luxury in my country. I mean I don’t understand. A person from UK with a monthly wage about 3-4 times higher, has to pay for Splinter Cell Double Agent around 6-8 Euros and I have to pay for the same thing 40 euros. Yeah I almost forgot, I tried buying digital versions, but they only accept PayPal and PayPal sucks (Had some bad experiences while trying to buy from a US online store…) So there seems to be only 2 solutions…Get pirated versions or forget the whole thing.
At least we know she wasn’t a leecher lol
She should go get her lawyer and sue the company for making a sh*t game.