Stealing, Pirating Assassin's Creed Costs Man $25K

Idiot

no good deed goes unpunished....

Good artists copy, great artists steal. Steve Jobs

Buying a copy, spending hours or days tweaking it for distribution is nice, but stealing the copy and simply uploading it isn't so great. That said, $25,000 for a $60 game seems excessive to say the least.

I for one am not against piracy as I believe that if the game is worth the money then the pirate will still buy it. I have been known to try out games without demos like this. That said, I also believe that if you truly enjoy a game, then buy it and support the developers*.

*Unless it is Activision, then pirate away.

Coming up from Ubisoft - Pirate's Creed!

(And with Ubisoft's latest DRM scheme, you decide who's the pirate...)

...what exactly is probation going to do?

Probation officer: Have you stolen anything this week?
Anzalone: No, I don't think so...
Probation officer: Ok then, see you next week.

Seems kind of pointless to me.

LOL, surely one of SKIDROW's lackeys

Stupid that he got caught. Should have been smarter. I personally don't care whether people pirate or not, most of your money goes to the owners of the company, not the people who should actually receive the money, the developers. to agree with a previous poster, if the game is good, people will buy it anyways. As he also stated, unless its Activision, and I would like to add EA Games, and any other company who implements DRM that only allows you to install a game a certain amount of times. I bought the game, it should be mine to install as many times as I want!

How do you get software that is to expensive for your wallet, and you really need it??? I mean games are one thing if your parents can afford a computer to run the game, why not just buy the game and full features or w/e for $60? It's not fair for the developer. However some programs that cost 3.5K not even some parents can afford... I bet the developers of those proggys are all millionaires now anyways from the people who do buy it!!! Stealing from a warehouse is a totally different, it's like walking into a computer store and taking a cd off the shelf and walking out. The law is not really fair either, you can't charge a person $25,000 for a $50 dollar disc... If you develop a game on pirated soft, you should be only required to pay the software price and the rest is yours, and that is only if you make something off of it. Gawd people are so greedy these days, OMG, come on get real!!!

I think you guys are missing the point of the $25k fine. The fine isn't that high because of the stealing, it's that high because he uploaded it for others to download which other people can steal it. Instead of going after all those other people, they'll just get the money from this guy since he was an enabler. Same kinda thing happens to drug dealers.

"for stealing a copy of Assassin's Creed from the manufacturing plant and uploading it to the internet"
They are not charging him for the 50 dollar disc but for the "losses" he made the company suffer by uploading the game to the internet. They never charge people for the exact same amount they stole but for the damages they do by doing so.
It's similar to what in the States is called "psychological damage"(thats what most of suing are for)which in fact can not be measured but in this kind of cases they do a aprox. to the actual costs and then, CACHING! they get their money, or at least they get all the money from all the pirates from 1 pirate's pocket.
I feel sorry for the guy, being from where I'm from, the taxes take prices around 150% the actual cost, so piracy its a way of living more than a choice for most people. I hope he ends up fine.

Sigh...from what I've heard the game wasn't even worth stealing.

why pirate this? this game is worth it. although the DRM they put on the PC version is pretty messed up though

Yeah I guess it's fair. I'd never post a game for download even if I can hack it. The web is sorta a security door for companies, that is why they track the IPs of downloaders and uploaders. Hey man if you want to protect something that you took time to make take your time :-)

If everyone who got a copy of the pirated version donated $1 each, then he'd be set!

First off, I am still upset about the whole DRM thing. Because of that, I will never buy another game from ubisoft again until they lift the DRM and apologize to all the faithful customers they basically S#!T on. I buy all my games. Yes I have tried pirated games before, but only as demo's if there isn't a demo out, but I truly believe in supporting the devs. as I think pirating is hurting the industry and if a company makes a good game that I like, I want to support that company so they can make more games. As far as ubisoft, I vowed never to play this game because of the DRM. Basically I think this hacker did ubisoft a favor, because everyone knows that while pirating is bad, in cases like these where games aren't gonna make sales because of major F**K UPS like the drm, then pirates are doing ubisoft a favor by basically spreading the game and advertising it to there friends, who in turn go out and buy the damn thing. So, I don't think people should pirate this game, because I don't think ubisoft deserves anything good out of this, even if it isn't on purpose. I don't think anyone should buy, pirate, put up wallpaper, talk about the game, or buy any games from ubisoft until they fix things. I also don't think they deserve a damn capital letter in front of there name, But hey, thats just my opinion.

If you're stupid enough to do this andge caught you deserve everything you get.

Are you ass clowns stupid enough to actually believe its ok to steal a game and pirate it? Or that its "just a $60 game"? This action cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars. The culprit is lucky he doesn't spend five years in jail, rather than just probation.

I really fear for the future of the human race, when an entire message board of people is too stupid to realize that the games they love to play are only developed because someone can make money by making them...and if crimes like the above go unchecked, soon you kiddies won't have any new toys to play with.

If you actually did it and you think they have enough evidence on you. Pleading guilty and cooperating is the best coarse of action. For pirating a game that has reached millions of people, it could have been far worse then $25k. It could have been in the millions.

Pretty sure Theft under $5000 doesn't get you a $25,000 fine. If I went and stole a game from a store, I'd get a slap on the wrist if I apologized and returned it.

I bought this game at Best Buy for $10, sometimes you just got to look for sales, $10 is better than $25,000

"Stealing a physical copy of a game at the manufacturing plant prior to the official launch is a good deed? I'd like to know what you consider a bad one.
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Stealing from the manufacturer and sharing is bad..
Buying one legal copy, crack it, and sharing it in the net is a good deed.

Assassin's Greed

the drm on the pc version isnt that bad, ive just got to remember to start my fake server whenever i play it

i got the game for £20 casue loads of people complained in coments before it was released

and why should drm only afect paying customers?
cause it is only a matter of time before people break through it look at that person last year who hacked into the pentigon or something and they were suposed to have best secuity


what im trying to say is it is always easier to break something than create it so it will allways be like this