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Game Makers Accusing Innocent People of Piracy In the UK
eldavojohn writes "It's a topic that a lot of game makers like Atari don't want the public hearing: game makers wrongfully accusing clearly innocent people of piracy. From the article, 'According to Michael Coyle, an intellectual property solicitor with law firm Lawdit, more and more people are being wrongly identified as file-sharers. He is pursuing 70 cases of people who claim to be wrongly accused of piracy and has spoken to hundreds of others, he told the BBC.' If only a few are coming forward after receiving extortion letters ('Pay £500 OR ELSE!'), what's the actual number of those out there being wrongfully accused?"
Proudly trying to match or outdo the US in hostility towards own citizens, since 2001.
That's called upping the efficiency... of course they'd earn more if people hired them to defend them in court, but that would be actual WORK.
I'm just surprised they haven't switched to emails with Paypal links in them.
Shared methodology of most content makers lately:
Old plan: Compete and make a better game. Get people to part with their money on the basis that your content is best. Convince them your game will improve their life.
New plan: Produce garbage no one wants. Restrict it so much it's unusuable. Treat your customers like criminals when they don't buy. Sue people almost indiscriminately (on the flimsiest evidence) to make up for short fall.
What the fuck happened? It feels like I'm in the twilight zone!
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What other industry could thrive so much on failure?
Weather forecasting
What?
I'm gonna sue because someone else used my IP address of 127.0.0.1 in their anti-piracy logs.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
Think this comic sums it up nicely: http://xkcd.com/488/
My only surprise is that they haven't subcontracted it to lawyers in Nigeria ...
Brb. Drafting form 'copyright infringement' letter.