Still, if it wanted to sue any downloaders, would it even have a theoretical case? Advertisement
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Yes, the developer was doing it to prove a point, so it seems unlikely it will actually pursue any damages from the "pirates" it thwarted with the crippled game ( UPDATE: Greenheart Games' Patrick Klug told Ars Technica directly that "it was never our intention to pursue any legal action against those people who downloaded the cracked version"). In this case, Greenheart was the one that originally put the "cracked" version of the game on BitTorrent and promoted it on P2P sites. To be guilty of copyright infringement, you need to obtain the software without the permission of the copyright holder. CRACKED AND WORKING!" Whatever the other facts in the case, the downloaders who saw that description obviously intended to download a free, unlocked version of Greenheart's game rather than paying for it. The version of the game that Greenheart Games posted on torrent sharing sites came with a description that said the file was a "FULL VERSION.
The basic question is this: can the people who downloaded the crippled version of Game Dev Tycoon, thinking it was a "cracked" version, really be considered pirates?Īs a moral question, it's pretty cut and dried as far as we're concerned.
The little Internet experiment served as an ironic and humorous poke at software pirates and a smart way to call attention to the challenges indie developers face with piracy.īut the whole incident also stirred up a tricky legal and ethical debate among commenters and editors here at Ars Technica regarding the actual nature of piracy. Flickr / deplaqr reader comments 191 withĮarlier this week, the developers at Greenheart Games distributed a crippled version of its new game Game Dev Tycoon disguised as a "cracked" version of the full game.
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