"Activision takes 3 FIle Share Priates to the courts Gamers get caught sharing COD3 way too often "

DRUDOG - 452 days 10 hours ago

Piracy sucks. Sure games are overpriced (in general), but stealing is stealing.

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nanometric - 452 days 9 hours ago

To be honest I'm more inclined that the prices for games are a highway robbery. So is stealing the stealer a bad thing?

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Proxy - 452 days 8 hours ago

From my understanding it's the people that actually upload things on the P2P's that are in trouble. The downloaders are safe, usually. (I don't pirate, and I don't support it.)

As a downloader, if you download from a pirate, then the legal owners have no idea you've downloaded it. What the owners can do is set up their own P2P upload, and then track the IP's that come and download the software. The problem is if they try to sue these people, then they claim, "well, didn't we download it from your server?" It's entrapment. So I understand things. But I'm no lawyer.

Furthermore, uploaders are the root of the problem. Thousands download, few upload. Take away the uploads, and there is nothing to download.

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XboxOZ360 - 452 days 7 hours ago

When you DL something, you in effect are pirating the item from the servers of those who originally stole the goods.

In law, "receiving is considered a HIGHER crime than stealing. The fact being, that is there was no call for the items/goods, (the receiver) then the crime would not happen, or be less than what it is.

SO either way you look at it mate, those that download are as equally at fault as those who initially steal the goods. There is no "get-out-of-gaol" free clause in piracy I'm afraid.

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XboxOZ360 - 452 days 9 hours ago

No there aren't, in fact, they are somewhat leient in many cases.

Just go and check out fines for piracy on a movie for one case or the cost on a company or person who copies movies and "distributes" them. They are in excess of $US300,000 and more in many cases.

Fines or better still, penalties, as fines sounds too soft, are what is within the limit of the law. The law is there to discourage people from doing it again, and again. If it was a few thousand $, then most will continue, make it steep enough, and they will think twice about doing it again.

If YOU owned a company that you invested not only YOUR money in, but that of thousands of others in (stock holders), you'd want to make sure that what you were loosing, you were hopefully going to recoup or at least slow down the losses.

But then again, how many gamers own businesses and run companies and know what such things involve . . . not many

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XboxOZ360 - 452 days 9 hours ago

Quite true, but for every negative comment, there's an alternative.

Parents DO need to take more active involement with their kids "these" days, as it's not like it was even 5-7 years ago. So we have 2 generations of kids growing up with technology that is far in advance of what used to be available several years ago.

SO that doesn't take the responsibility away from parents, I know, I'm one. On the other side, laws need to be in place to make those that do break them think twice about it. For piracy, there are two types of penalties, and some times both can be imposed depending on the judge dealing the case. They are both heavy monetary fines and jail terms.

Many kids do ask parents if it's okay to DL something, thinking they are perhaps doing the right thing, and that their parents would/should know. There are those kids who simply do as they please, irrespective of what they are told, and they should be held accountable for their actions, so as to learn that everything they do has a consequence, irrespective of what it is.

It's one of the driving forces behind many game's these days, where every action you take has a consequence. But the media focuses only on the actions, not the aim of the games in question.

There is no EASY fix or solution to both piracy or how kids are parented, nor how parents govern their kids. But rules and laws do need to be there, otherwise we would live in a world of complete chaos, much more than we do now.

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nanometric - 452 days 9 hours ago

Good thing I live where I live, cuz no one cares about here.

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Weed - 452 days 8 hours ago

That makes a lot more sense. I thought the game industry was about to go RIAA/MPAA.

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XboxOZ360 - 452 days 7 hours ago

Thanks for the update mate, we'll add that to the article.

Cheers . . give you the creds for doing so as well thumbs up.

Just update the site, gave you credit for it.

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