Matrix- someone is ripping you off

[Feinder]

Hm. Interesting thot (potentially) connecting the missing CDs from Digital River. Hadn't even thunked of that. But I wouldn't be surprised if that did account for lost CDs. Not that Digital River (idiots) are involved in this mess, but simply I wouldn't be surprised if some of their missing CDs were somehow involved with this).

-F-

[Maserati]

The Chinese forces may suck, but I took Bangkok with Chinese troops in May 1942 (against the AI). If they've had MY luck the PLA will give them a medal.

[ZOOMIE1980]

ORIGINAL: Beezle

Hopefully the perpetrator lives in a country with good copyright laws and really awful jails [:D]

If it's China, forget about it. China, aka, Piracy Central.... and not much can be done about them, either...

[UncleBuck]

Well we could tell them we may withold Most Favored Nations status for them.. oh wait we already gave the Commies that didn't we?

There isn't much we can do about that nest of Evil.

UB

[Wilhammer]

BTW, WiTP was available for download on Usenet about a week and a half ago.

It is also on emule now.

You see the CD key and the cracked patches there too.

The horse has left the stable.

[Damien Thorn]

Don't think that all Chinese are pirates and crooks. In China it costs about 100 Yuan for two people to go see a movie. In spending power that is abou the same as 100 US dollars. They could buy a pirated DVD for about 5 yuan instead (and sometimes do) but the theaters I went to were still full.

I agree these guys should be punished because they are selling something that does not belong to them and has real value (i.e. a current computer game that people would pay rel money for). I look at it differently though if it was something that was say, five years old and not available through legitimate channels or the original company was out of business. There needs to be an expiration date on intellectual property that is much shorter than the current 50+ years. For computers 5 years is a lifetime and a half. Heck, it's hard to even make games tht old run on current computers. Like I said though, that doesn't apply to this guy who is pirating a current game.