Piracy doesn’t pay
AustralianIT has a report on a $208,979 fine that a Federal Court judge has imposed on a member of a so-called “piracy ring” in Melbourne. Caught for making PSX copies, the fine equates to around 2000 games which Sony claims they would otherwise have sold. Ironically, Sony admit that the popularity of the PSX was in part due to pirate software making it so accessible in the early days.
posted by devo · at 10:10 am · filed under News
QUOTE:
“Delete all your hdd’s … and throw them on the floor … they can recover all deletes. U have to break them u have no choice,” the transcript reads.
Mr Henley said the PwC team spent several weeks going through computer files reconstructing the volume of PlayStation games sold.
What would happen if they grab their hard disks and boiled them for a few min on the stove after smashing them on the ground? Would it be enough to destroy the magnetic medium? Other option would be to whack em in the oven…by the time they searched the place looking for them, they would be roasty-toastie.
I think its interesting to note that the fine was associated with people who made money out of copyright infringement. I’m not sure but I think that there is no case in Australia of anyone being charged and convicted with “personal” copyright infringment.