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CD Projekt Suing Pirates of Witcher 2

December 13, 2011 by Mat Growcott

Developers CD Projekt are tracking IP addresses and demanding money and apparently it’s paying off.

Despite releasing a version of the game that was completely DRM-free, the Witcher 2 has been heavily pirated. This is naturally a sore point for developer CD Projekt who estimate that some 4.5 million copies of the game have been downloaded illegally, this is compared to only about a million sales. This is ending up as something of a mixed bag.

Some pirates are receiving nasty letters from CD Projekt's lawyers and, scared of being caught, are paying up the $1230 that they're being asked to send. This may make anti-pirates fist pump the air in celebration, but don't get too excited just yet. CD Projekt are sending out letters based on IP address and, as almost everybody knows, this isn't a very certain way of doing things. IP addresses are often shared by neighbours and, in a slightly darker instance, somebody with a knowledge of computers may well be able to highjack somebody else's connection.

And so people who have never heard of the game are getting letters demanding over a thousand dollars or they are being threatened with court action.

British consumer rights groups fought against the last attempt to do this – a collection of developers were being represented by Davenport Lyons, including CD Projekt – because of the sheer amount of false accusations. However, the developer has continued to send letters in Germany.

Source: TorrentFreak

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