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Amazon sold pirate copies of Frostpunk and Surviving Mars, among others
- bdz 8y agoBasically people buy the GOG version which is DRM free. They strip it from the installer, upload it to Amazon and sell it way below the MSRP >Amazon, has been selling pirated copies of PC games, some do-gooders have discovered (or rather, sellers using Amazon as a storefront have been selling the pirate goods). The dodgy games include icy societal survival game Frostpunk and dusty martian city-builder Surviving Mars, which were being sold for the suspiciously cheapo prices of $3 and $4. If you bought one of these games, you got an illegitimate installer to download, which contained some files ripped from GOG store versions of the games.
- mywittyname 8y agoIt's crazy to think they don't have measures in place to vet digital content. I doubt people could do the same thing with Disney movies.
- stevespang 8y agoAmazon is an ACCOMPLICE in the crime, yet courts have failed to rule as such.
- avsteele 8y agoWhats potential Amazon's liability here? This seems like its the kind of thing that could easily be/become fairly widespread. I mean if someone found a vendor was selling goods stolen off the back of a truck and they told amazon, could Amazon get away with being so slow and blase about it?
- benologist 8y agoAmazon pay nobody to prevent such problems, so nobody is liable. It's not their fault they're too poor to hire anybody to solve such problems as counterfeiting or piracy, or to pay taxes.
- phobosdeimos 8y agoWell a rightsholder would have to actively engage Amazon and notify them. Amazon then dropkicks the seller from their site. But copyright is worthless if nobody defends it. And I bet that for most game devs its just not worth the hassle. The easiest way to defend copyright is stuff like content ID which automates the process but everyone hates that so...
- JamesLeonis 8y agoThey could use old P2P copyright cases against torrent trackers to get the FBI to seize Amazon's domain addresses.