IP shields recession for some…
When the doldrums of recession are being heard everywhere and businesses have seen a considerable drop in sales and profitability, Intellectual Property Rights have come to rescue of some Internet business players. An anonymous Web Ecologist reports a fellow student being slammed with a £366 bill from a Internet gaming company for illegal download and use of a software game. The company has sent a legal notice with evidence of the game being downloaded from a P2P site last year, and has provided detailed logs of the user playing the game after downloading it.
Why did the gaming company waited so long before slamming the user with such a big bill, and allowing him to continue playing the game for over six months? No doubt the company waited for the fruit to ripen before cutting it. Web Coherence warns its readers to be even more cautious as the predators are now actively using legal powers to bail out themselves out of the recession!
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