Hello,

As I was doing my research about Linux yesterday I was looking at how many torrents there were available on the Pirate Bay. Anyway, as I was doing that I noticed a gog torrent too and it caught my attention due to that it was not just one game, but an entire collection.

I clicked on the uploader to see how bad the situation was and I noticed more collections. Frankly, I think he has shared all of gog's games.

I immediately started thinking of solutions and one way would be to mark each installation to the individual user so that we know (gog user) who's sharing it and therefore could ban him or something. The collections were relative new and already had a bunch of downloaders! Not only that, the extras were also uploaded ;(


I know that we can't eliminate it completely but this is bad, especially considering the low prices and good support GOG give us!

How will we ever convince the publishers that this is the way to go if people keep killing the entire concept? Thoughts?

Be happy that you're not them.

Pretty much what Gameon said. Don't worry about the pirates. Pirates gonna pirate, whether games are DRM free or saddled with whatever the publishers decide they want to put on them.

Sure, whoever's doing this is a douchebag, but the world's full of them. Just ignore it and move on.

It isn't that big of a deal. It isn't a new thing either.

Personally, I don't understand why people keep finding it shocking.
/edit:silly typo

Pirates gonna pirate.

GOG.com is doing fine even with people pirating their games.

Sadly, unless we can get a mob after them and beat them to death, I don't think we can do anything about it.
Pirates gonna pirate.

This

Pirates are going to pirate, no matter what

Even if GOG games came with free Champagne and half-naked Swedish Bikini models Pirates are still going to pirate the games and there isn't anyone can do about that, ever, the sooner publishers realize that and just focus on paying customers: The better

I also gotta love though the pitiful excuses that I have heard from pathetic Pirates online

Me: GOG games are worth buying, check out Wing Commander 4 and these cool extras
Pirate: Old games are not worth paying for! Why should I pay GOG any money? GOG doesn't do anything! GOG just repackages games and rips off people!
Me: Really? Alright, find me a torrent for Wing Commander 4, download all of the disks, get it to Run on Win7 and then find for me all of the Extras that GOG offers
Pirate: Ehrm....Well...Uhhh..."pirates the GOG release"

I love the new "echo" effect in the new version of the Internet. :P

Good to know they are just GoG pirates, not GOG pirates.

I love the new "echo" effect in the new version of the Internet. :P

As you suggested,
The only option is if gog start to digitally sign and watermark the games on a per customer basis.

That would make it possible to trace the 'leak' by downloading and analyze the torrent - and then ban and perhaps hold him responsible for the damages.

This.

For god's sake, not another one of these again. These threads are more annoying than Anglican Church flyers in the mail.

None of that, please. One of the things GOG's such a fine, fine establishment is its trusting and fuzzy nature.
Pirates gonna pirate, as was said. Big deal.