http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8381097.stm guess not if your a lawyer in the UK dont get me wrong i think there should be some control on file sharing but this? ...
Bastards...these guys just want to scare the consumers, and the goverment with their fail legislation is just helping them. Some forms of pirating need to be cut back, but the way they are doing it is so heavy handed, and really damaging to the internet culture.
I recently torrented a game legally, since i actually own the game, but the dvd is not functioning. Will that kinda people also be affected by this?
what if you download films and shows that have been on TV, reason if its been on TV anyone could have recorded it which isn't stealing, there was controversy about this in the 80's where hollywood wanted to ban/imprison anyone with a VHS cloud, you would think it was legal, the same with rare oldschool games that are impossible to find this is just another example of "he who has the most money + lawyers can do whatever the fuck they like"
Bingo. The RIAA has been doing this for music for years in the states to scare people into settling out of court. Though, I never understood how suing your potential customers was a smart idea.
It is legal. You buy the rights to use their software / play their game. Its only illegal if you don't haven't bought hte game. That why lots of companies are now offering downloading options and taking advantage of the steam interface unless they are faggots and don't want to pay for bandwidth like IW who preloaded MW2 with "DLC" and is going to charge players to unlock them
it is definately legal to download something you own. this law firm is being a bastard. perhaps the british are assholes o.0
i torrented one of my favorite old games (heavy gear II) because the disc was broken. All I needed was an image to make a working disk again. I paid for the game when it came out, and now I highly doubt there is anywhere I could find another copy. so sue me
