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<blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4967263" data-attributes="member: 65637">Man, six pages on this about the corporation and lawyer doing the crackdown and not a single Shadowrun reference? ;pAre the pirates at fault?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Obviously.&nbsp; They did the crime.Is WotC the good guy?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; Just because &quot;they did a crime&quot; does not equate to &quot;I get to decide the punishment.&quot;&nbsp; The issue here is that you DO have some regular guys of variant ages, some underaged and living in a third world country, the proper response is not &quot;Let's levy a huge lawsuit and ruin their lives.&quot;Right now, both parties are being dicks.As for what I'd do in the situation, I'd do what I on 99% of companies already do: let them go and think about ways to stop future piracy.&nbsp; WotC is making the same mistake the music company did - they think lawsuits will help stop piracy.&nbsp; It doesn't.&nbsp; It fuels it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ProfessorCirno, post: 4967263, member: 65637"] Man, six pages on this about the corporation and lawyer doing the crackdown and not a single Shadowrun reference? ;p Are the pirates at fault? Yes. Obviously. They did the crime. Is WotC the good guy? [I]No.[/I] Just because "they did a crime" does not equate to "I get to decide the punishment." The issue here is that you DO have some regular guys of variant ages, some underaged and living in a third world country, the proper response is not "Let's levy a huge lawsuit and ruin their lives." Right now, both parties are being dicks. As for what I'd do in the situation, I'd do what I on 99% of companies [I]already [/I]do: let them go and think about ways to stop future piracy. WotC is making the same mistake the music company did - they think lawsuits will help stop piracy. It doesn't. It fuels it. [/QUOTE]

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