Hi everyone and GOG!

A user at archive.org/ under the email address: Removed upon request and the pseudonym of Removed upon request is pirating GOG video games on this website.

I'm very annoyed with this situation because it's us GOG users who suffer the consequences of everything... because ''x'' developer doesn't want to update his projects in GOG for fear that his video games will be pirated. (see related note here).

Webside: Removed upon request.

List video games:

- The Evil Within
- The Evil Within 2
- The Talos Principle
- The Walking Dead
- The Wolf Among Us
- Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
- Tormentum Dark Sorrow
- Valfaris
- Waking Mars

Now my question is... What are you going to do, GOG?
Because I'm already a little tired as a GOG user of suffering the consequences of all this (digital piracy) in my video games (lack of technical support, few updates or late updates or no updates, etc.).

Thanks for the information and help!

Why? If the idea is that GOG knows about this problem that is happening now.
Please let me know if I am violating any Community norm or rule!

If you don't remove the link, a blue will come around and remove it. No one's allowed to share links to piracy here. You can send the link directly to support through a support ticket. They'll see what they'll do. They may even ignore it, because, generally, CD project works on the assumption that "Pirates are gonna pirate" (though they have done different on occasion in the past). Anyway, it's worth sending the message to support.

As Falci said, send it to support. Don't share publicly.

Hi!
Okay, I appreciate the information and help. I honestly didn't know. Thank you very much!. :)

Remove the link?

Done, thanks to all of you!

Archive.org i do enjoy because they are an archive. Believe it or not, there were programming books that included full BASIC programs at the library. Treat archive as nothing more than a library.

Obviously you're mad that someone might put up a game and other people may download it and play it. Or maybe it is a good archival backup in the instances when services go down, or maybe it's 100 years from now and have a simple game to look at in the past while we still used keyboards mice controllers and physical controls while they are using brainwaves and SAO controls to dive into a simulation so realistic that they never leave, or we have our brains turned cybernetic and connect in like Ghost in the Shell.

First, if someone wanted the game they will find it one way or another. Be it Pirate bay, IGG, or some other site. Maybe they are paying customers, and maybe they aren't, and maybe they never would have been and are just looking for something to pass the time, it doesn't really matter. Once the game is in the wild, if it has DRM it might be cracked, once cracked it might be shared via torrent peer-to-peer and never be stopped again unless you nuke the entire internet from orbit or kill all technology period.

But complaining about it doesn't do much. And punishing people tends to make them more resistant to opening their wallet. Surely you never played a game you never payed for? I know a neighbor where we would borrow games all the time. Diablo, Doom, Starcraft & Brood war, just about everything he had i probably played without paying a cent for. (Although most of them i've bought over the years or here in the last decade).

So i'll just say....

Archive,org is a good site, lots of information/data in the public domain you won't find otherwise.

It strikes me that if you contacted the website in question and reported it with evidence that indeed it is blatant piracy they might remove it themselves.

Just offering links to the store site to prove it's still even being sold should be enough for the site to comply.

If i could point you to a book on the archive that was printed in the 80's and still bought/sold on Amazon, would that call for a takedown of the book? Or movies that are still technically under copyright due to 70+lifetime even though they should have left decades before?

Although i don't see them taking it down. From what i see most DMCA takedown rules tend to be if you are the copyright owner and contacting them to take it down, not going out of your way to be a vigilante because your own sense of justice is being challenged.

And also some archive sites have physical discs that are more or less abandoned and put up for archival purposes, regardless how useful/useless the content is.

This is a poor excuse by some DRM-loving studio. In addition this is a blatant lie, as they actually sell games here. They are even bringing new ones right now, that they will not keep up-to-date despite taking the money of DRM-free players.

This TinyBuild publisher does not deserve a single cent of our money. They do not deserve their games to be pirated either, this would be free publicity for them.

That depends entirely on whether or not the book is legally in the public domain.

Just because a book is being sold on amazon, that does not automatically means that it's not in the public domain.

However, in cases where the product is not in the public domain, but is posted on the archive site, then that's pirated material.

It doesn't apply to downloadable digital content. The other games Archive.org published were to be played from a browser emulator, but cannot be easily downloaded nor disseminated. These games however are blatant pirated material.

If you're going to let Archive.org get away from being a file-sharing site for pirated stuff simply because it got itself marked as a library, then you might as well let other sites do it as well. It's no bloody different in the end.