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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.'"
killall -9 *orrent* /mnt/storage/downloads/*
rm -rf
There, I should be safe now.
Tell Zuxxez you'll pay when they make something that's worth money. At the moment, they can starve for all I care.
Ssshh now. Rest your weary head Stevey B. It'll all be alright in the morning.
Return to Sender. Then disappear and join the Foreign Legion.
Thanks for the postage price conversion, but what about the demand itself?
Damn, I didn't realize the lines there were that bad.
What's black and bubbly and taps on glass?
... every few seconds?
A dead baby in a microwave.
What's black and bubbly and taps on glass
A dead baby in a turntable microwave.
What's the only thing worse than a dead baby in a garbage can?
Ten dead babies in a garbage can.
What's the only thing worse than ten dead babies in a garbage can?
One dead baby in ten garbage cans.
How do you get 200 dead babies into a phone booth?
With a blender.
How do you get them back out of the phone booth?
With a straw.
I accidentally converted to Euro. Thanks for correcting my mistake.
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
This is Slashdot. News for nerds. Don't multiply by two - just bitshift left by one.
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Couldn't resist the bad pun, sorry.
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz (1872)
So what you're saying is, downloading music makes you turn homeless!! Why didn't the RIAA tell us before???
which is totally what she said
Obligatory ;)
"'...You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.'
'But the plans were on display...'
'On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.'
'That's the display department.'
'With a torch.'
'Ah, well the lights had probably gone.'
'So had the stairs.'
'But look you found the notice didn't you?'
'Yes,' said Arthur, 'yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".'"
which is totally what she said
They increase his score almost, but not entirely, exactly unlike a +1.
Mind you, Two Worlds is a badly written, badly acted, badly balanced, boring wreck of a game in the first place.
I'm guessing it did so badly that this is a last-ditch effort by someone to actually make some money from it.