Square Enix, Eidos & Other Game Giants All Demand Cash From Pira...

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Sun, 01/15/2012 - 13:30

The news this week that CD Projekt, the company behind The Witcher games, would cease their pay-up-or-else file-sharing settlement scheme against Internet account holders was welcome.

As highlighted dozens of times before, companies making these accusations rely on weak IP address-only evidence and use their legal teams to intimidate their targets into paying up – guilty or not.

CD Projekt wisely moved to protect their hard-earned image and relationships with both the gaming press and their...


 

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