I don't think it's splendid at all as this is mostly a consequence of people spreading false information and utilizing scare tactics.

I now have faith in CD Projekt again!

Edit: Serious response, I'm really happy they decided to do the right thing. People screw up, but not everyone are good enough to listen to reason and admit that they made a mistake. The reason I and many others were so disappointed with the news in the first place was that we held CD Projekt to a higher standard than most companies in this industry, and now they've (again) shown why that is.

Pirates will rejoice I guess, many will still bitch, and most won't care.

I had faith in CD Projekt in the first place, I think it was the right thing to do.

This is good news in my opinion, and it will reflect well on them.

I agree. CD Projekt never said "We love pirates!" They always said "We love our customers!" They have every right to hunt down thieves of their property. And anyone who says that's wrong ought to evaluate their position's argument.

Edit: Okay, I need to re-evaluate. I read the article and didn't realize the tactic they used. They still have every right to pursue thieves, but the blackmail-ish style is a little sketchy.

Kinda where I stand, though it didn't make me reevaluate bupkis. If someone steals my stuff, I'm going after them. Would be a bit hypocritical of me to expect different from others. The methodology wasn't the best, but I can't argue with the goal: stop stealing from us and pay our reasonable prices to obtain the products legally.

I wouldn't have minded them going after pirates if two criteria were met:
1) They had a foolproof method of determining who pirated it (which they don't)
and
2) A reasonable fine was levied (I'm talking something about 3x the price of the game, which I doubt would have happened)

Precisely, just because they've bowed to the pressure of a large number of pirates doesn't make this a good thing. Ultimately it means that they'll be making less money on the game than they should and that next time they do a game that they'll likely have less money on hand to work with, meaning either higher prices, larger loans or smaller scope of game.

This isn't any sort of win for anybody other than the sorts of assholes that pirate indie games.

I lost faith in the RPS comments.

This have returned the faith i had in them :)

1) How could you possibly know that? The only reports of wrong information have been made in pro-piracy blogs and even then without having a quote from anybody that's actually been effected. A supposition here is just not good enough. We don't know what method they were using or even which firm was sending out the notices so we still don't know what the accuracy rate was or what measures they had in place to ensure that people didn't get extorted. Ultimately it looks like you've bought into the pro-piracy FUD.

2) The actual letters were asking for a lot less than $750, unfortunately, since the only information out there comes from pirates we don't really know what the real amounts demanded were, but they were a lot less than $750 a person. Plus, they do have the right to get repaid for the cost of enforcement. It wouldn't surprise me if those costs went beyond that, you know since we expect that letters will only go out to violators, doing it properly costs money.

We had faith in CDP, John Walker didn't.

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