2012-04-20, 01:06 AM
Joe Wrote:Specially if you take into account that a lot of people who play in a private server either have an account on MS as well, or only play the PS because of the perks (100x exp or whatever, free NX items, active GMs, events), and wouldn't play MS on the official servers anyway.That's basically the same argument people would want to use when fighting against copyright infringement accusations for music or video downloads. Just because you have 1000+ songs in your computer doesn't mean you would have ever bought them if you didn't have access through pirating. Case in point:
Killed Wrote:this case does provide an excellent example of the ridiculousness of anti-circumvention statutory damages. $3.4M can't be the right damages award in this case, and it's so guffaw-inducing that it further erodes the legitimacy of our copyright rules.