needmorecarnitine
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And I wonder what they plan on doing to the other countless individuals that illegaly obtain the game through a identity free medium...ie Usenet.
Shake their fist at them.
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And I wonder what they plan on doing to the other countless individuals that illegaly obtain the game through a identity free medium...ie Usenet.
OP just admitted he pirates games.
No, I did not. I expressed my dislike of companies demanding money from people who are innocent, which is what always happens when they do this. When did it become unpopular to be disgusted by this kind of legal extortion?
What about demanding money from people who are guilty? How do you feel about that?
needmorecarnitine said:What percentage of the people that will be sued for this game do you think are innocent?
needmorecarnitine said:Do you believe if that if someone swears something, it has to be true? How about 60 year olds being incapable of using torrents?
No suspected murderer should be sentenced to prison because there is a chance that a number greater than zero will be innocent.
I don't think two wrongs make a right, so no, I don't believe that extorting money from the guilty is the right thing to do. It's still extortion.
If they follow through with this plan, I think the number of innocent people who will get sued for this game will be more than zero. Would it be acceptable if it were only one person if that one person was you?
they should just do what they did with the first Witcher
simply make it so that when you want to download extra content, you sign up on their site, and then use your account there to get it
it's one way to validate your copy that isn't intrusive, and it's perfectly acceptable too, a few moments of your time to validate your copy in return for some extra content.
I see the problem now. English isn't your primary language.
This isn't extortion. In the United States, you have the right to pursue people who wronged you in civil cases. Not sure where you live but that is one of the methods used to redress a wrong in the U.S.
If they are sued and they believe themselves to be innocent, they can claim that in court. They can also ask the judge for compensation if they believe the filing party brought the suit without merit
I see the problem now. English isn't your primary language.
needmorecarnitine said:This isn't extortion. In the United States, you have the right to pursue people who wronged you in civil cases. Not sure where you live but that is one of the methods used to redress a wrong in the U.S.
needmorecarnitine said:If they are sued and they believe themselves to be innocent, they can claim that in court. They can also ask the judge for compensation if they believe the filing party brought the suit without merit
Yeah, does anybody here actually believe that CD Projekt would even succeed in taking somebody to court?
How would this even happen? Are they going to sue the person - the case would get thrown out. Have the person brought up on criminal charges - yeah, in what country? You can't arrest a Canadian if you're a Polish police officer.
The letter thing is quite frankly laughable. CD Projekt can't even spell properly to begin with. They're the laughing stock of the gaming community.
Just what the forum needed, a DRM debate. I swear to god, every gaming forum ought to have a single DRM thread that just gets stickied or something.
The first Witcher also required the CD to be in the drive.
"Cough up $1000 and we won't file a lengthy lawsuit that will cost you many times as much just to defend yourself" is what's happening here, and that feels like extortion to me.
No, I did not. I expressed my dislike of companies demanding money from people who are innocent, which is what always happens when they do this. When did it become unpopular to be disgusted by this kind of legal extortion?
you should have thought about that before you did it.
If you didn't do it, nothing to worry about because they aren't even suing you to begin with...
If you live alone and don't have wireless internet, the situation is as black and white as this, but only in this case.
Hey OP don't be a cheap bastard. Buy the game.
Hey OP don't be a cheap bastard. Buy the game.
What I think is odd is people are making illogical connection between what other people who have followed the route of pursuing priates and what cdproject are doing. Precedence does not work in this case as cdproject have not done anything to show that they are of the same make as the RIAA or whatever.
There is no evidence that they will using "extortion" or that they will go after innocents. In FACT they have shown by their previous actions that they are a good sort of company, GOG is run in a way many people like, they removed the need for a diskcheck on the original witcher after it had been out for a while although I am not sure if it was them or the publisher who would actually want the DRM and they are offering the next game without any drm at all.
So anyone who is arguing against this line of action based on others who have followed it have no real ground to stand on IMO.
Just IMHO but one would be total dick to download it :
- you get 20+ (CDP promises 40) hours of mature rpg content (unlike some other I shooted few zylions aliens and fucked alien chick pseudo rpg game)
- you get real pc game pushing some serious graphics
- you can get digital version with absolutly totaly 0 drm that can be installed on every single computer in your household if that's what you want
- you can get it on steam if that's your cup of tea
- you can get nice retail package with some nice stuff thrown in there compared to some publishers giving disc and 3 page leaflet