> isn't it now implicitly legal to share that copy? That may well be considered giving permission. However, since they are interested in the social aspect, not

> isn't it now implicitly legal to share that copy? That may well be considered giving permission. However, since they are interested in the social aspect, not the legal aspect, that doesn't matter. The social assumption is that a game you get from a torrent is pirated. > Can the devs then be sued for knowingly tricking people into committing a copyright violation? (Ignoring for the nonce that in America you can sue anyone for anything) no. No one got "tricked." No one went out to buy a copy of this game and ended up on the torrent by accident.