Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passwords

Re:Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passw... by jopsen on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @06:35AM (#16419578)

Forget about counter-sued, this is a criminals matter.

One for which you can earn hard time. Even if you don't use the spyware. I wouldn't dare work for a company that did this.

Copyright violation is merely a civil matter, cracking a serial number generator is not even copyright violation. Breaking DRM is still illegal, but that's all. I'm not even sure we've established that's it's illegal to distribute information on how to crack DRM. Certainly, not in all jurisdictions.

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Re:Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passw... by SXX on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @07:20AM (#16419777)

> Breaking DRM is still illegal, but that's all.

It's not illegal in all jurisdictions and even then there are cases that allow you to do it.

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Re:Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passw... by jopsen on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @08:32PM (#16426077)

true,

And distribution information on how to break DRM is even less likely to be illegal.

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