Post: British Woman Fined £16k For P2P Game Sharing
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08-19-2008, 11:28 AM
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Billy_Boy_07
Banned
British Woman Fined £16k For P2P Game Sharing
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A British woman has been fined over £16,000 for putting a game file on an online sharing network.
Topware Interactive won damages of £6,086.56 plus costs of £10,000 in this landmark case against the woman who shared a copy of its game, Dream Pinball 3D.
Three similar cases from game file sharers are currently pending in the UK courts.
Topware Interactive send out around 500 letters to UK citizens identified as sharing their game on P2P networks.
Thousands more suspected
"The damages and costs ordered by the Court are significant and should act as a deterrent," said David Gore, a partner at Topware's lawyers Davenport Lyons.
"Taking direct steps against infringers is an important and effective weapon in the battle against online piracy," added Gore , who claims that there are thousands of known suspected file-sharers that could now face legal action.
"This is the first of many."
Open court justice
Becky Hogge, director of the Open Rights Group told the BBC: "An open court process with a full report is certainly preferable to justice of the type being mooted by the government on P2P, where activity takes place behind closed doors through industry action."
"In relation to the orders for release of personal data, it is important that court processes do not become rubberstamps for industry action but retain judicial safeguards and independence," said Ms Hogge.
Topware Interactive won damages of £6,086.56 plus costs of £10,000 in this landmark case against the woman who shared a copy of its game, Dream Pinball 3D.
Three similar cases from game file sharers are currently pending in the UK courts.
Topware Interactive send out around 500 letters to UK citizens identified as sharing their game on P2P networks.
Thousands more suspected
"The damages and costs ordered by the Court are significant and should act as a deterrent," said David Gore, a partner at Topware's lawyers Davenport Lyons.
"Taking direct steps against infringers is an important and effective weapon in the battle against online piracy," added Gore , who claims that there are thousands of known suspected file-sharers that could now face legal action.
"This is the first of many."
Open court justice
Becky Hogge, director of the Open Rights Group told the BBC: "An open court process with a full report is certainly preferable to justice of the type being mooted by the government on P2P, where activity takes place behind closed doors through industry action."
"In relation to the orders for release of personal data, it is important that court processes do not become rubberstamps for industry action but retain judicial safeguards and independence," said Ms Hogge.
08-19-2008, 04:41 PM
#4
Ronye West
Anti-HSx9
08-19-2008, 04:44 PM
#5
Billy_Boy_07
Banned
08-20-2008, 02:50 AM
#9
Public Account
Big Sister
Downloading any file is not illegal unless you hacked something in order to download it.
Uploading IS ILLEGAL.
Also ontopic:
Woah, she got fined 16K Euro for just for a pinball game that probably cost less than $30.
The person who sued them would have been crazy. Some games that cost more than $40 get downloaded over P2P file sharing and people do nothing about it.
Uploading IS ILLEGAL.
Also ontopic:
Woah, she got fined 16K Euro for just for a pinball game that probably cost less than $30.
The person who sued them would have been crazy. Some games that cost more than $40 get downloaded over P2P file sharing and people do nothing about it.
08-20-2008, 02:51 AM
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streetkilln
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