Irishhoodlum said:Or they could post Trojans on torrent sites with the game as a label, and then when people download it, it'll hijack their computer with tons of... Gay Porn... Or something...
Plus even if it is illegal, what are the pirates going to do about it? "Oh, well I was just ermm downloading this thing I thought was a game which is technically "not legal" when I found out it was a virus...".
HG131 said:I have a better idea. Leak the full "game" on torrents, but make it so it gives the devs acces to your CPU and then destroy all of their CPUs.
I hope that you guys realize that intentionally destroying people's computers is illegal and the companies could and would be sued by people left and right and the companies would lose the fight. It's like if a burglar breaks into your house, you have a certain right to self defense; but you don't have a right to grab the burglar, tie him up in your basement, and torture him in your basement for a year. Companies have rights to protect their software by anti piracy measures but as soon as they put in harmful material out and as some of you mentioned, ways to directly hijack a person's PC that is hacking which is illegal and beyond what they are entitled to, legally speaking.oppp7 said:How about releasing a virus with the leaked game that shuts down most functions in a computer? Then pirates would start relizing the consequences of this kind of thing.
Also, they'd maybe only get like a handful of stupid people, and the general pirating community would probably thank the companies because the people who would fall for it are merely the bottom feeders who contribute nothing. [Like other people mentioned files are highly scrutinized and most people wouldn't download it from people they don't trust.] People who have any sense of what is happening in the pirate world are like burglars who break into homes where the owners have gone out of town for vacation, and have done some research on the area around the home. Those who would get infected are like burglars who would break into a redneck cop's house that has a fully loaded gun cabinet when the cop and his buddies are having a poker night.