Game File Sharers Fined
A British woman put the game Dream Pinball 3D on a file-sharing network, allowing anyone to download it. It’s proved to be a very expensive action, as yesterday, in a London court, she was ordered to pay the game’s creator, Topware Interactive, over $32,000 in damages.
The decision, made at London’s Patents Country Court, awarded Topware Interactive over $12,000 in damages plus $20,000 in costs. It’s likely to be the first of many cases from Topware. Last year the company took legal action against British ISPs in order to identify people it claimed had been pirating the game on P2P networks. The company then sent out let
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