Comment by mqus
2 years ago
Isn't radicle then the easy way to argue that participants actually distribute the program themselves, including an easily trackable IP, so lawyers can just add a client themselves and then sue all IPs that transfer a byte of the (illegal) program?
The same happens to media sharing via bittorrent in germany right now. Having some site which gets closed instead seems to be preferable to me.
Of course copyright infringement is different from whatever emulators are doing but I imagine the effect might be the same
It's pretty easy to safely get away with piracy with a VPN. In most countries even that isn't required. I'd imagine it's the same here.
Of course the goal for the lawyers then is different, it's just extracting money instead of preventing distribution
Good luck getting that through the court.
I guess they could just send people threatening letters - but even getting the ISPs to play along would be an uphill battle.
Germany is a special case as it's particularly bureaucratic and dominated by establishment interests. And even then it's only commonplace for Bittorrent because GEMA, etc. pushed to make that possible.