I've pirated tons of stuff for the last ten years and I've never heard anything of it. When I lived with my parents they just turned a blind eye and enjoyed the free stuff.
I don't think this theory holds any water. True, technology-wise, USA is ahead of rest of the world in many, many ways, except for telecommunications. Especially Scandinavian countries have quite high bandwidth, but their users also seem to get 'warnings'. On the other side, people in Eastern Europe and Asia rarely ever seem to receive any warnings at all.It seems to me that the US has the most relaxed policies when it comes to illegal software downloads...I wonder why...
Not really, it's just that US ISPs tend to have better bandwidth than a lot of other countries so people get letters about using too much bandwidth less often...
And yet we're the people with the ESA and the RIAA and the MPAA and the CIA and the DRM. Well, maybe not so much on the last one.It seems to me that the US has the most relaxed policies when it comes to illegal software downloads...I wonder why...
Weapon XXX got his house raided by the fucking feds (there was a topic on it).
He never said it was about piracy, though.
that's because it wasn't about piracy.
QUOTE(nintendofreak @ Dec 23 2007, 01:32 AM)It seems to me that the US has the most relaxed policies when it comes to illegal software downloads...I wonder why...
I used to have thatQUOTE said:Don't they usually cap you for uploading too much? I never had a problem with the downloading part.. minus the 2 honey pot stings which were basically, if you download our shit again we "might" do something about it.
Here in ausland we have a thing called download limits ==" we download over our limit = instant capping, unless you find the loophole and continue downloading even after you went past your limit without stopping, it maintains usual speed.