Comments on: UK Campaign Against Game Piracy Targets Non-Gamers

By: Kafka

Kafka — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:03:28 +0000

This is why i will never stop pirating media. Monster companies are taking people to courts, while they earn millions they ask 2 elderly people to pay 500 pounds. and that, in this day and age, called justice.

By: Gente inocente es víctima de la campaña contra la piratería en Inglaterra | CANVAS

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:31:42 +0000

[...] TechCrunch Etiquetas: Atari, BBC, Inglaterra, [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:23:09 +0000

This is why I stopped pirating media. Its not that I felt some sort of moral responsibility to actually pay for my media, it was that random innocent people were going to court for things people like me were doing.

By: God

God — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:10:02 +0000

What the hell? They should by ANY MEANS sue those very bad companies against false accusation !

This is a total power abuse by companies, plus it IS terrorism.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ゲームやらない人にまでゲーム違法コピーの損害賠償命令（英国）

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ゲームやらない人にまでゲーム違法コピーの損害賠償命令（英国） — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:31:37 +0000

[...] [原文へ] [...]

By: patent looser

patent looser — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:13:32 +0000

Grandson downloading games while grandpa sleeps ugh?

By: Nicholas Lovell

Nicholas Lovell — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:04:54 +0000

This is a story originally started in August, when Atari, Codemasters and a number of other firms went after illegal file-sharers. The publishing trade body did not condone it, one commentator pointed to a case in France which was close to “legalised extortion”. Now that Atari has set this hare loose, it will run and run.

By: still trying...

still trying... — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:37:34 +0000

W.E.B.A.R.O.O

H.U.S.I.C.K.

By: Welldone, Mike

Welldone, Mike — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:20:24 +0000

You’ve blocked me, but I am figuring it out…

By: cp

cp — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:17:44 +0000

This post could have been written a little better. It’s not clear how Atari got the list of IPs.

By: Testing

Testing — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:15:24 +0000

Why you block my IP Dimmy?

Why you do dis to me, Dimmy?

Dimmy?

“You’re not my mother!”

By: RahulC

RahulC — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:46:33 +0000

This reminds of my friends father who asked him why I am billed in my phone for PMS, it turned out he was referring to SMS which he was billed for which he never used.

By: 7P

7P — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:32:17 +0000

Atari jumped the shark with the Atari 2600 in the mid 80’s. Now the brand resides with Infogrames, and coincidentally they finished the acquisition this month.

I hope they do something useful with it, but I’m not holding my breath.

On a lighter note, River Raid was an awesome game, and I never had “paramilitaristic tendencies” after playing it: http://en.wikip...wiki/River_Raid

By: MindFlesh

MindFlesh — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:23:14 +0000

Pursuing innocent people and making them pay fines is pretty much the UK government’s strategy for collecting stealth taxes. Not surprising then that this law firm should copy their lead.

The whole issue of film piracy is something that used to bother me a lot but now, somewhat reluctantly, I’ve had to conclude that there is nothing anyone can do about it. We live in a world of piracy which means lost revenue for us all but the potential for greater exposure for others without big marketing budgets.
The experience of Steal This Film shows that very few people “tip” the filmmakers a dollar or so for having watched the film for free but in their case I believe enough to cover the low cost of the movie. Unfortunately, then, this isn’t a business model today and it is affecting financing of “true” independent films (e.g. not those for which “indie” is a genre rather than statement of authorship).
Nevertheless, we’ve borrowed from the bloggers’ “buy me a beer” concept and implemented our “buy me a latte” which we hope might ease the conscience for some http://www.mind...m/buylatte.html

Perhaps Atari should do the same?

By: Tostada-man

Tostada-man — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:51:41 +0000

I know this people, and they are not gamers…

I was talking to Gill the other day while on WoW (server – Tichondrious) and she told me they were not gamers…

I told them I knew the feeling. I don’t even know how to text…lmao…

Damn you, Al Gore, for inventing the Internet!!!! (or at least, building the legal pathway that allowed for the developement of it…whatever!)

By: Scott Herbert

Scott Herbert — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:46:43 +0000

It’s also possabul that this is the result of a bot net, where people have downloaded malware which is being used as a proxy for the real file sharers.
Of course you’d have to be a big player in the Warez feild to go thru the hassel of running such a bot net.

By: nicholas butler

nicholas butler — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:30:52 +0000

Is not the real point of this story that IP addresses can be spoofed, faked, misdirected etc etc etc. Why are we still allowing them to be used as evidence in a court case ? It can clearly be demonstrated that the information is not reliable, shouldn’t we be more concerned that this wasted effort to pursue piracy will the long term add to the cost of Game and Content creation.