@damien @selfhosted@lemmy.world @selfhosted@a.gup.pe @selfhosted@kbin.social To be honest, no, not yet.

@zachimusprime44 Am I the only one not seeing any image here?

@Rhabuko Waas, ich bin hier.

@stappern @Talignoram6571 It’s a difficult question. I’m a game developer. We estimate that about 25% of all active copies are pirated.

If all pirated copies would just disappear, would those people go buy the game? I don’t think so. They would just stop playing. They don’t care about the game enough to spend money, or they really just cannot afford it.

But you could argue that more people are playing the game, and they might buy a sequel in the future.

So, do we loose money? Yes, a little.

@b00m @Incendiro @lichtmetzger Leute, sehen, riechen, probieren! Wenn es nicht komisch schmeckt ist es auch nicht gefährlich. Das hat die Natur schon gut gemacht. Manches hält sich überraschend lang.

@the1HOknocks @Alextheacceptable @SolOrion dammit.

@SolOrion They don’t deal with ISPs outside the country, because they can’t sue them at a German court.

So they need to know it’s a German ISP beforehand so they can request personal information accordingly. But maybe they could still figure it out from IPv6 address ranges… I’m not entirely sure.

Makes me think… if you exclusively use IPv6 you might be fine because they can’t geolocate you that easily 🤔

@Alextheacceptable In Germany, there are lawyers specialised on torrents. They collect German IPs from the peers list and mass-sue them over distributing copyrighted material. They always ask for a settlement payment of more than 5000€. It can usually be escaped by taking it to court, but I recommend not going through that.

So, depends on your location. Over here, download one movie without a VPN and you have a shit ton of legal crap coming your way.