A Question on Piracy

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No, they go for the people who are uploading. They usually just send out scumbag ambulance chaser lawyer firms who letter thousands of people for 10s of people who pay up.

The RIAA and MPAA are evil neanderthals, and I think Pop Will Eat Itself.
 
Aod said:
this is a little quandary that I've had in my mind for some time now;
Say, for example (somewhat hypothetically) that I own a copy of a game, like Oblivion.

That copy is located somewhere where i cannot access it, and is not being used by another person.

Is it still piracy if I then download a copy of oblivion from the Usenet, a method which does not involve the uploading of any copyrighted material?
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It's a civil offence but they can get so little from you they won't bother pursuing you even if they could catch you.#

Also it's circumventing DRM
 
Tefal said:
It's a civil offence but they can get so little from you they won't bother pursuing you even if they could catch you.#

Also it's circumventing DRM
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Unusually in this day and age Oblivion has no DRM apart from requiring the DVD to be in the drive. But my understanding of the law is that you are NOT allowed back-up copies. However, it's unlikely that a case would proceed, never mind succeed, under these circumstances.

As for the bit about "made up laws": all laws outside of science are made up.


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maustin said:
And if they catch you downloading they will put you through 16 different flavours of hell!
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They won't catch me. But even if I was to be breaking the law and I was to get caught, I'd still fancy a shot in court. The only people convicted that I've read about are about as intelligent as mud.
 
Morally you're fine and no one is going to pursue you for it but by the letter of the law it shouldn't be done.

There are clauses for back ups but I believe there are caveats to that including not circumventing copy protection and also having to make it yourself. Downloading stuff off Usenet doesn't count as a backup.
 
If you use our serial then your fine. If you have to have a no cd crack or a different serial then its piracy.
This is why I now get all my games on steam
 
Meridian said:
Unusually in this day and age Oblivion has no DRM apart from requiring the DVD to be in the drive.
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it does have drm in the sense that you can't just copy the disk without circumventing it.

But my understanding of the law is that you are NOT allowed back-up copies.
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You're alowed 1 back up copy however you are not allowed to circumvent drm to make make it hence you can't make one.

However, it's unlikely that a case would proceed, never mind succeed, under these circumstances.
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Iirc for the downloading the most they could claim from him is the initial cost of the game so not worth the hassle :p
 
I fancy boys said:
My view is if you've paid for the game you should be able to download it again if you wish, copy it, paste it, put it on other comps, whatever you like! its distributing it which is the problem.

This is why itunes annoys me, i pay for the songs, yet they are still locked files with limited use.
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iTunes has been drm free for ages :confused:
 
I doubt very much that this would land you in trouble, especially as you own the game. Making profit by backing up games on a mass scale would however carry a heavy penalty and rightly so.
 
thanks for all the replies.
i didn't really ask this for fear of getting caught.

were i to hypothetically undertake this activity, i would have course do so via SSL :D

Doonhamer said:
In the format you purchased that software. Ie the CD, not a download.
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I'd very much like to see where in the software-use license it provisions to the format upon which the software is stored. this isn't a Dig, I've just never encountered this before.

buzzby said:
If you use our serial then your fine. If you have to have a no cd crack or a different serial then its piracy.
This is why I now get all my games on steam
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Yeah, me too. i love Steam!

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This won't get you in trouble, nobody will give a ****.

Just don't SHARE files, that's what gets you done.

Edit: Plus if you are using Usenet then you're probably (should be) using SSL, in which case you're merely downloading an encrypted file, could be free Linux ISOs for all they know.
 
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