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Atari Drops File-Sharing Lawsuit Dragnet

By soulxtc

Decision comes a month after bad publicity following law firms incredulous targeting of a non-gaming elderly couple. It was a little over 3 months ago that five of the world's top game developers, Atari, Topware Interactive, Reality Pump, Techland and Codemaster, decided to hire UK-based law firm Davenport Lyons to begin suing file-sharers illegally distributing their game titles. The number of people to be targeted was estimated at around 25,000, each of whom would be offered the chance to pay 300 pounds ($557 USD) to "conveniently" settle out of court. Bad publicity followed soon thereafter with a report that a non-gaming elderly couple was caught up in the blind dragnet. "We do not have, and have never had, any computer game or sharing software," said Gill Murdoch and her husband, aged 54 and 66 respectively.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).