DrEvil wrote on Nov 23, 2010, 00:10:

Creston wrote on Nov 22, 2010, 22:36:
So, it's basically the RIAA way?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, CD Projekt, but the RIAA spent like 20 million dollars in legal fees to collect 800,000 dollars of fines.

That is not what normal people would call smart business.

Creston

No, this is perfectly legitimate. They're protecting their commercial interests, and I sincerely doubt they're going to demand millions of dollars or even tens of thousands like the RIAA does.

There's also a huge difference here -- the RIAA is trying to defend a dying business model that's reliant on a ridiculous long term copyright system, while CD Projekt is simply trying to protect a legitimate product. They are the artist and publisher here!

The only mistake they made as I see it was to announce this. They should have just done it quietly and moved on.

The game is DRM free. That's sufficient to earn my goodwill.

If they want to go after cheapskates who download crap from torrent sites, then more power to them!