The Witcher 2 devs claim 100% accuracy in identifying pirates, demand money from thousands

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PC Gamer, Maximum PC's sister site devoted to, well, PC gamers, posted an interesting piece about CD Projekt RED going after software pirates in Germany and threatening legal action to anyone who refuses the settlement offer. In this day and age of BitTorrent, this is hardly unusual, but what's interesting here is that CD Projeckt RED claims it's able to successfully identify pirates of the game The Witcher 2 with 100 percent accuracy.

"We’re addressing only 100 percent confirmed piracy causes that are 100 percent possible to prove," Michal Nowakowski, VP of Business Development for CD Projekt RED, told PC Gamer via email.

Nowakowski wouldn't share what exactly CD Projekt RED is doing to elminate false positives, only that he's supremely confident all accused are guilty.

"We are not worried about tracking the wrong people. As this is the trade secret of the company working on this, I cannot share it," Noakowski said. "However, we investigated the subject before we decided on this move, and we aware of some past complications (the famous Davenport case). The method used here is targeting only 100 percent confirmed piracy cases. No innocent person was targeted with the letter so far. At least we have not received any information as of now which would indicate something like that."

CD Projekt RED released The Witcher 2 earlier this year free from any DRM shackles via its sister company, GOG.com. Including retail copies with DRM, the game sold over a million copies around the globe.

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I bet you want to see more pictures of that girl in the red hat don't you, you sick little... :lol:

[Rezurrection]

:D :D :D i am to expect them

[alaindc]

i don't have a good enough PC for gaming, but...

i was thinking, they release a great game, without DRM, so...a good game, without any DRM, should be bought.

it's sad so few peoples did it.

Then...

The same compagny decide to pursuit bittorrent user.

not soo cool now.

So, right now, i'm not sure i will buy the game, when it came to console.

[myidisbb]

total bs. no drm means no drm. unless they themselves uplaoded a version on p2p that had something different in it.

[Snowdrop]

Meh, good thing I didn't bother with this game. Skyrim seems to be the much better option. I have a feeling I'm gonna be buying it once I start... after exams are over =)

[Maxhedroom]

I grabbed it from a 0day, small, private tracker...think I'm pretty safe...knock on wood.

[TheGreatGuy]

No torrents no worries =]

[Rezurrection]

skyrim vs w2..... both games are good.....but i just can stop complain on skyrim 5.15 gb and that is 2011 not 2008.......bethesda i expected much more....

[alaindc]

skyrim vs w2..... both games are good.....but i just can stop complain on skyrim 5.15 gb and that is 2011 not 2008.......bethesda i expected much more....

on xbox 360, skyrim is only 3.5 gigs, it's pretty small...

[mrsmith]

No torrents no worries =]

dude you are so right...there is a much better place to get warez. +1

[Maxhedroom]

I only use a couple of small private's where probably over half of the members use seedbox's...lol, maxs my 30Mb connection every time. Before I had a bandwidth cap I was spoiled with ftp axx...sniff sniff... :(