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DRM Software Company Takes Legal Action Against Cracker

posted by martyb on Friday July 27 2018, @11:32AM   
from the cracker-crackdown dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

PC Gamer, Engadget and Gamezone report that software vendor Denuvo has taken legal action in Bulgaria against a man known as Voksi, who cracked their video gaming DRM. His equipment has been seized by the police.

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• Re:"if he lived in Russia" Re:"if he lived in Russia" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @02:04PM (5 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @02:04PM (#713671)

  1) Russian Federation

  2) The laws are enforced alright. Just that the police there have decided to cut out the middlemen politicians in the business of taking bribes to define what is legal. If you can pay your way out of it, jail is avoidable. They've bet you at this particular facet of capitalism.

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• Re:"if he lived in Russia" Re:"if he lived in Russia" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @02:40PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @02:40PM (#713689)

  Except that most often that not Russian police doesn't know Russian laws. And they don't really care about that.

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  • Re:"if he lived in Russia" Re:"if he lived in Russia" (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @03:04PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @03:04PM (#713703)

    So, the same as the US?

    _{(The US courts have repeatedly ruled that the police officers do not need to know the laws they're enforcing. Yes, that happened.)}

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    • Re:"if he lived in Russia" (Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Friday July 27 2018, @04:30PM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday July 27 2018, @04:30PM (#713736) Journal

      Watching experienced First Amendment auditors, you will definitely see them school U.S. cops on the 1st Amendment and ID laws (these vary by state).

      Cops have an advantage over ordinary folks: they are authoritative figures with wide-ranging powers. They can detain most people without cause, and most people won't realize that the cop is in the wrong. And they can always just make up a resisting arrest or disorderly conduct charge. Even if the person goes free later, arresting them in that moment might have been the cop's goal.

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• My apologies, yes: Republic. (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @02:42PM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday July 27 2018, @02:42PM (#713691) Homepage Journal

  I should not drink and public.

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• I expect it's the case in Ukraine too, however... (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @02:49PM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday July 27 2018, @02:49PM (#713697) Homepage Journal

  ... The Ukrainian Angels studio raid was done in cooperation with some foreign law enforcement agencies.

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