"If you steal, all bets are off."

Not to mention that their practices justify use by shadier companies. Heck, scammers can make a crap ton of money sending out these kinds of notices.

The good thing is it's a double-edged sword. [torrentfreak.com]

If CDP wants to use law to stop piracy, then use the criminal justice system, where people can actually defend themselves.

Don't lump all pirates together. Many pirates live in areas where its 2-4x more expensive as here, with less income per capita. South America, for example.

Except those accused of stealing by Wal-Mart have access to a public defender. Those accused of piracy can either pay the fee on the notice or pay 10x more to defend themselves. Given that there is no legal recourse sending these notices out, if a scammer sent you one of those notices and threatens to sue, those are…

1) They aren't being punished by law. CDP and the law firm they hired are sending notices that basically say "pay up or we'll sue", and the one being alleged of piracy usually cannot hire even a lawyer to defend them, let alone experts for their defence.

[en.wikipedia.org]

I'm not a fan of piracy, either, but I am a fan of evidence-based law.

Contest it in a court where knowledge of IP law is necessary for a proper defence, and the only way for any given individual to do so is to hire a lawyer?

"We're 100% sure there are no false positives. No, we can't release any data or prove our claim, just trust us."

Personally, I would have liked to see his creative vision of the Assassin's Creed series. Revelations was the weakest game in the series apart from the first.

I disagree. I hate the VGAs because they celebrate and propagate outdated and immature parts of gaming culture, which affects the image of people who play games, like me. If video game critics continue to push for respect of video games as a creative medium in the face of legislators regulating games, news…

True, but how can you write something that can make people realize that? On nearly all the articles I've seen, people tend to get defensive without examining why. It's a hard challenge, to be sure.

An article isn't a debate, though. How does a writer respond to a nonexistent embodiment of the other side in a format designed to only show one person's point of view?

I wish the lawyers that CDProjekt hired would take time and do some research. Suing individuals leads to bad press (this is the internet after all) and doesn't proactively stop piracy for the cost of litigation. That's a net negative effect on you as a company trying to stop a black market, which has existed for…

A sharing ratio of 20:1? Most people who torrent don't do that. Most would stop the download after downloading it and upload speeds are notoriously slower than download.

"If you can prove it."

Not true.

I think this news vindicates the leaks based on Steam data. Future leaks will probably be as accurate as this one.