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Game file-sharers hit with court fine
Christopher Dring Jul 2 2008, 9:44am
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Video game pirates asked to pay £2750 in landmark court victory
A PC games publisher has won a court-action against four individuals who uploaded Dream Pinball 3D onto illegal file-sharing websites, according to Metro.
The four were ordered to pay £750 in fines and £2000 in costs to Topware Interactive, in a case that could lead to the conviction of thousands of other file-sharers. Topware’s solicitors Davenport Lyons has stated that it plans to prosecute more file-sharers later this week.
Partner at Davenport Lyons David Gore told Metro: “Copyright owners spend millions of pounds developing copyright works for sale to the public for their enjoyment and yet many think it is acceptable to obtain te work illegally and for free by procuring a copy on a peer-to-peer network.”
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“:D”
Posted by: ka0znrky - Jul 2, 10:05am
They probably made more money from court than they would've from the sales of the game judging by that pic lol.
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Posted: Jul 3, 10:22am
Very interesting - could this lead to entrapment cases where a publisher allows (secretly) a game to be uploaded as a torrent and them comes down on those to torrent (and hence upload it) themselves?
“How did they prove that these individuals uploaded the game?”
Posted by: Anon - Jul 3, 2:10pm
So.. how did they prove that these individuals uploaded the game? Also, I'm assuming that they were not charging the people who *downloaded* it... I would be very interested to see more details about the actual case. Anyone have any links?
“Re: How did they prove that these individuals uploaded the game?”
Posted by: RevStu - Jul 4, 12:39pm
Mm. This is clearly just an embarrassing last-gasp attempt at making some money out of a terrible game, because DP3D is complete rubbish that doesn't deserve to turn a profit.
“Re: Re: How did they prove that these individuals uploaded the g”
Posted by: Phillip - Aug 21, 1:21am
an obvious defence to this will be the use of dynamic IP addresses, as these change periodically it will be impossible to prove that, that was the assigned ip at the time