Insomniac Is Using Internet Providers To Issue DMCA Notices

Insider Gaming writes: "It shouldn’t need to be said but don’t download and play the early build of Wolverine that’s now out in the wild.

If you do, you’re in direct violation of copyright law, and as recent posts on social media platforms have shown, you’re very easily tracked."

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Too late insomniac tbh once on the internet it's there forever.

[blackblades]

No its not, its for the ones that downloaded the game. They are being tracked and to stop others from downloading it. Its illegal to download something that was stolen in a hack

[Vits]

Yeah, good luck with that on a global jurisdiction with VPN and P2P clients.

[BeHunted]

It's impossible to track VPN users. Majority of those that downloaded the game uses VPN.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

VPN + Private trackers + P2P clients = gg no re plus it's more than one person downloading this.

[blackblades]

Y'all said its to late but yet they getting dmca and something about it being linked to there server but whatever

[XiNatsuDragnel]

@blackblades

It Is bro golden rule once on the internet always on the internet and if someone downloads a game that's entirely too late because it's not like windows is able to remove programs via remote methods so brother too late.

[Export]

Not private site

[Rocketisleague]

It's not too late for the ones that didn't use a vpn. Don't assume all pirates use any of these. Insomniac are in full damage control mode now

[Bobertt]

Only the beginners who don't use a VPN when torrenting have a chance of being tracked. All these companies do is find the torrent then have someone log the public IP address of people who join the torrent. Then they send them to ISPs and ask them to send a DMCA notice to that IP address. Also often after a certain amount of time has passed they stop caring and logging the IP addresses because it's wasting money. Most ISPs will give you 3 chances as well before they cut off your internet too so most of these people should be fine and hopefully wisen up and get a VPN.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Just say you’re a criminal.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

That's pretty much the world these days especially the govt spying on our phones is criminal buddy.

[Export]

Not In canada , you cant share it but if its on my private IP server. Its fair gain !

[MetalGearsofWar]

I'm a criminal.

[gold_drake]

its abit late unfortunately

[Christopher]

I might be a bit too late, but they still have to go through the motions otherwise they lose later stances on upholding their rights to the IP as it relates to the hacked material.

[Eonjay]

Had to read that a few times but I got it. Makes sense.

[Christopher]

Sorry, first word should have been 'it'. But, yeah, later cases could be thrown out of they don't show a history of defending their IP at all stages.

[mkis007]

It's not like the leaked stuff is any fun from what i saw, it's just a very early vertical slice of rudimentary gameplay... The good stuff comes later in development. I don't understand the value to anyone but Insomniac.

[Amplitude]

Honestly, as much as I hate the context of the leak and how it happened, I am absolutely interested in unreleased builds of games. I love when these things leak or are posted by developers after the game's been out for a while or if it's canceled. Its really cool to see how a game evolves over it's time in the oven and I'll surely be playing the leaked build after I beat the game.

In my perfect little make believe world, developers would have a Patreon where they'd upload in-progress builds to the public and nobody would use it to judge the quality of the later final game. It shouldn't be as big of a deal as it is

[Amplitude]

I mean, anybody downloading this is doing it from Tor from the darkweb and through a VPN so good luck

[InUrFoxHole]

This sucks for insomniac. Gamers are stoked for this game. Now for the leak overall it's a bummer but 2 important tidbits that are getting overlooked... insomniac held layoffs till after the holiday season and they are possibly going to release Spiderman 3 in 3 different segments charging separately for campaign and MP.

[Binarycode]

What a crock, you're not in violation of anything. I don't like the fact they've been hacked and these ppl need dealing with.

If you were trying to pass it on, or sell it. That's illegal.

[ApocalypseShadow]

What you're saying is if someone handed you illegal material, you're not responsible.

So, if someone handed you a bundle of stolen money from a bank, and you went on a spending spree and got caught by the FBI from the serial numbers, you're not to blame because you didn't rob the bank.

Sure buddy

[specialguest]

That's not a comparable analogy. This hacked situation is more like if someone posted an incomplete secret recipe for a food item and I chose to download it to look at it, it shouldn't be illegal. I'm not using the recipe to take it to the next level to copy and reproduce it for sales

[ApocalypseShadow]

Guest, these individuals aren't looking at it, they are downloading it and playing it.

Taking files that are not yours is illegal. Doesn't matter if it's the hackers or you downloading it. Both are illegal.

[Binarycode]

If you did not purchase said stolen material. Then you're not to blame imo.

Lets play another one, you break into my house and I beat you to death. i'm within my rights, my castle. It's your fault for breaking into my house. Don't go where you don't belong.

I worked at a job where I found many phones, laptops, ppl forgot about, it's shocking and left them lying about and walked away. I handed them in to the company or police. Because these items have ppl's lives on them. and I'm honest.

[babadivad]

Fucking ridiculous. I'm sure this behavior will be defened here.

[RAFTECH26]

Too late.

The game is out for people to download and pirate.
If it expects to be greater than the leak, then expect a delay.

Anywho,
It’s too late…..

Plain and simple

[Darkegg]

Best way to deal with this is to prevent it happening in the future, ignore ransomware and not pay them, and not do the one thing they crave: do not pay them attention. Accept the hack, acknowledge it happened, and nobody should be rewarding them for this behavior. Answer is not in addressing it but deprive them of their attention and accept the loss. Continue business as usual. Other parties should not show any interest. Transparency should be the way anyways.

There are no cybersecurity that can stop them. The easier answer is to disallow their access from disturbing the equilibrium.