Time To Panick Illegal Game Downloaders!

[Leetzgirl]

They're not allowed to look thoguht are they?

I dunno, privacy laws are being broken but i dont know how and what is being done :S

[Mario]

i dont d/l games illegally - i download programs

[DrLacero]

Some company is always cracking down on the illegal download of something or other. Not gonna stop me. In fact I think I'll celebrate by downloading Colin McRae DiRT, I heard it's pretty good

[Hazza]

ergh, i always read stuff like this, doesnt stop me though.

One girl downloaded a game sent it to her friends and got fined £200,000. Some people have already been caught

[Kevin]

Heres an other article from torrentfreak about this issue

http://torrentfreak.com/uk-game-pira...amages-080821/

Also the calculation for your fine if your sharing a game

A) Estimated number of days file was uploaded by the Defendant x (B) Estimated number of downloaders Defendant made game available to per day x (C) Profit lost per download = total damages

Edited by lAscend (Forum Super Moderator): Posts merged due to lag.

[Lycan]

They're not allowed to look though are they?

Well thats basicly what all the EU law is about (ISPs providing names about the customers they think (so no hard evidence required other then downloading over something like 50Gb a month) are downloading illegal materials) Except that law was turned down Twice. Instead its Optional... and the only two ISPs doing it just happen to be two of the largest aka BT Broadband and Virgin. BT and Virgin both sent customers they thought were using their services to download illegal material notices warning of them about what they thought they were doing... but that was only sent to a few hundred... most of whom had no idea what BT were on about...

Privacy laws are being broken through clever backdoors and legal jingo jango. I was shocked the otherday to read in the news paper that they had won the right to name a 16 year old who killed someone.

Your isp can see what your downloading unless its encrypted... and at the end of the day who is your ISP to say your download illegally when you could simply be downloading several copies of Linux


You also have to remember that the person who had to pay £16,000 (and a few hundred) had to because they uploaded... along with the others thatwere charged...

[Andys]

It's just a scare..
Is there anyway they could catch me downloading from rapidshare?

[Lycan]

It's just a scare..
Is there anyway they could catch me downloading from rapidshare?

Well rapidshare you don't upload (unless your an uploader as well as a downloader) So Yes you could get caught but it would take alot more effort on there side and you couldn't be charged with causing the company to loose profit other then the copy you downloaded which in theory would be the cost of the game

Its all very confusing how they attempt to catch people but now that Privacy laws seem to be disapearing .... anythings possible but not likely.

[Andys]

Oh, is it only if you're uploading that you get a fine?

[Lycan]

Oh, is it only if you're uploading that you get a fine?

well all the hype has been about people who use torrents and things like limewire where you both download and upload the file at the same time

something you don't do on rapidshare