Following legal pressure from CD Projekt RED, pirate site GOG-Games was forced to seek refuge in the Dark Web.
The Polish studio has indeed, rightly, not seen with a very good eye that a pirate site is causing confusion in relation to its GOG platform offering guaranteed DRM-free games.
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Besides great titles like The Witcher 3 And Cyberpunk 2077 (after a few patches), CD Projekt RED is also known for its GOG platform, released in 2008. This stands out from the competition by offering, to the delight of players, games without anti-piracy protection (or DRM).
The platform has gained further notoriety with a version 2.0 of GOG Galaxy, allowing to gather all its games, whether they come from Steam, Epic Games Store or others, in one and the same place. But who says DRM-free games says titles very easily pirated.
CD Projekt RED thus saw… all red when a pirate site called GOG-Games.com was born. The Polish studio has thus initiated legal proceedings by invoking the DMCA since 2011, which have finally led to a positive result.
A Refuge Beyond the Black Wall
Since 2011, the pirate site has been resisting, using a host that ignores DMCA warnings. But that changed when the GOG legal team emailed the site administrator directly to the company providing the host services.
” The site infringes the GOG name by offering to illegally download games from the CD Projekt RED group and third-party games, as well as the trademark and copyrights relating to CD Projekt RED, The Witcher And Cyberpunk 2077. We are determined to have the site shut down and ask that you treat the situation with the utmost importance. “, indicates in essence the email.
Fearing being dragged before the courts, the operators of GOG-Games.com preferred to disconnect the plug… temporarily. The team issued an apology to users who made a donation to the pirate site, telling them they wanted to migrate to the Dark Web.
Only a few hours after the site was closed, an announcement was posted to this effect, encouraging users to download a Tor browser in order to access the Dark Web version of GOG-Games. Aware of this reversal, a GOG representative indicated that the team ” continue to assess the situation and will take action if the pirate site violates the policy. the players first, while respecting the rights holders of the platform.
CD Projekt RED may therefore need a talented Netrunner to venture beyond the Black Wall in search of this new version of GOG-Games.com. To be continued.
Source : Reddit
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