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by Steve Watts, Jan 12, 2012 11:00am PSTCD Projekt Red has announced it will no longer contact pirates with legal action. Reports came last month that the company was contacting pirates to claim 911.80 euros (approximately $1,187), but the company ultimately decided that the loss of trust among some fans wasn't worth the risk.
"While we are confident that no one who legally owns one of our games has been required to compensate us for copyright infringement, we value our fans, our supporters, and our community too highly to take the chance that we might ever falsely accuse even one individual," a statement from co-founder Marcin Iwinski reads.
"So we've decided that we will immediately cease identifying and contacting pirates," the statement concludes (via Rock Paper Shotgun).
The statement goes on to reaffirm that the company doesn't support piracy, "It hurts us, the developers. It hurts the industry as a whole," says Iwinski. "We've heard your concerns, listened to your voices, and we're responding to them. But you need to help us and do your part: don't be indifferent to piracy." Not only encouraging players not to pirate, the statement tells users to step in and call foul on friends who pirate. "Unless you support the developers who make the games you play, unless you pay for those games, we won't be able to produce new excellent titles for you."
This should come as welcome news to those who feared the accusations would hit innocent victims, and it seems like the best way to handle the public relations spectacle. Nevertheless, the developer behind the previously PC-exclusive Witcher 2 is trusting fans by straying from DRM models, and piracy is a poor reward for their faith in users.
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CD Projekt Red has announced it will immediately stop sending legal notices to suspected pirates, after some users raised concerns that it may accidentally target innocent victims.
CD Projekt Red has announced it will immediately stop sending legal notices to suspected pirates, after some users raised concerns that it may accidentally target innocent victims. : Shacknews
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You should be sorry for introducing the term "larceny" like it was what you meant all along. Larceny is a subset of theft.
You're sorry because you don't understand the difference between media and medium, which is why it took 10 tries to grasp the analogy.
You're sorry because you think that the "affect" on the person/business is not the same. If by that you are trying to split hairs and say "well gee, on one end you're stealing intellectual property and on the other you're stealing intellectual property and the box it comes in.", then you are correct and making a distincition without an EFFECTIVE difference.
So let's get down to brass tacks. You steal software from a store and the cost is $55 of development, risk payoff, overhead, whatever, and $5 of box. If you steal it by copying it, you just stole $55 instead of $60. That's your difference. You want to hang your hat on that and call people "extreme" for saying that a person who does either is a thief, or that there's a difference? There's your difference. You're still a thief.
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