Originally Posted by Shaki
Originally Posted by jaysemreedy
In addition to that, the laws concerning copyright infringement are Identical to those of theft. The only difference in the law that I am aware of is that the copyright holder of whatever you infringed upon can file a lawsuit for financial compensation in addition to regular court and criminal proceedings.
In short: Pirate a game, you go to jail, likely go to prison, pay a fortune in legal costs, and provide financial compensation to the game developer.
He didn't want to buy it legally, now he'll probably pay a thousand times its cost in compensation alone.


In many countries, piracy is completely legal.

In which countries is software piracy legal??? That would violate international laws and multilateral contracts, by the way. wink

Last edited by LordCrash; 09/07/14 08:33 PM.
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