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CD Projekt RED drops their harsh anti-piracy stance

article published on 13 January, 2012

CD Projekt RED, the developers behind the popular "Witcher" series, have ended their controversial methods of using law firms and torrent-watching private companies to find pirates of their games and sue them. The devs, which are anti-DRM, lost most respect with gamers after deciding to go the route of the RIAA and other groups in their actions against pirates. The company, through the ... [ read the full article ]

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xaznboitx
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_ 		13. January 2012 @ 19:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I hope SOPA reads this
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LordRuss
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_ 		14. January 2012 @ 00:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wasn't the game a flop anyway? Sounds like the pirated numbers were even laughable. I mean, you can't go to your next roundtable of backers with those numbers either.
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_ 		14. January 2012 @ 00:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by LordRuss:
 Wasn't the game a flop anyway? Sounds like the pirated numbers were even laughable. I mean, you can't go to your next roundtable of backers with those numbers either.
1.2 million sales is nothing to sneeze at.
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_ 		14. January 2012 @ 12:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So did they even actually sue anyone? Or did they flip before actually doing any damage.
Time to chalk up another company to actually buy stuff from.
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_ 		14. January 2012 @ 13:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by DVDBack23:
 1.2 million sales is nothing to sneeze at.
OK... So, I'll politely fold that into a nice package & cram into my ass accordingly...

I'm still apprehensive as to what their motivation is for suddenly dropping all the cases against these individuals. Other than the impossibility to make blind IPs stick to individual people.
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dab0ne
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_ 		14. January 2012 @ 14:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This game was really fun so it totally sucks that it was pirated so many times but the way they were going about catching the pirates just isn't realistic. There could be another way, however. I remember reading something about the DRM of Serious Sam 3 BFE which stated that pirated copies of the game had a super fast enemy with infinite health. I'm sure there is a way around it now but I thought it was really funny XD. Here I just found a video of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91q5BtlxK0


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LordRuss
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_ 		14. January 2012 @ 14:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by dab0ne:
 I remember reading something about the DRM of Serious Sam 3 BFE which stated that pirated copies of the game had a super fast enemy with infinite health.
OMG! That was hilarious!
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