London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game

Barence writes "A PC Pro reader has received a demand for a £600 out-of-court settlement from lawyers claiming to have forensic evidence that he illegally downloaded a PC game on BitTorrent. The law firm, Davenport Lyons, is acting on the behalf of German games distributor Zuxxez, creator of the game in question, Two Worlds. The PC Pro reader was given no prior warning to stop file sharing, unlike the usual 'three strikes and you're out' approach adopted by the music industry. The reader says, 'To add insult to injury it [Davenport Lyons] didn't pay enough postage on the letter and I had to collect it from the sorting office at a cost of £1.30. This also used up most of the two weeks that it allowed for a response.'"

Comments

Self serving much?

[stonecypher]

To add insult to injury? Have we forgotten the way this person got into the lawfirm's crosshairs in the first place?

It is quite common in law to increase the damages to some flat linear multiple of the actual crime, in order to deter crime. If all you had to do was to pay the money you didn't pay the first time, there would be no compelling reason to obey the law. By increasing to a flat linear multiple, the impetus to steal is removed on grounds that it is no longer cost effective.

You warezers need to grow up. This story reeks of bias. Mod me into the ground for sticking up for the law if you want; it happens most times that I have an opinion with which warezers disagree. They don't follow the rules of society, so I'm sure this'll get modded troll, flamebait and offtopic, even though it's none of the three.

But really, insult to injury? All that guy had to do was not steal, and none of this would have happened to him. I notice nobody's particularly worried about the developers who put in all the hard work to make the game in the first place.

What a thought: paying for what you use.