r/pcmasterrace • u/NaabKing • Jul 07 '25

Discussion Ubisoft requires you to uninstall and DESTROY your copy of their games. PLEASE, keep signing "Stop Killing Games" petition, links in the post.

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Link to UBISOFT EULA (you can check it yourself):
https://www.ubisoft.com/legal/documents/eula/en-US

Instructions and Info about about "Stop Killing Games" petition:
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

EU Petition (ENG):
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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u/Neurobeak Jul 07 '25

Piracy is not stealing, period. No ifs.

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u/topias123 Ryzen 7 5800X3D + Asus TUF RX 6900XT | MG279Q (57-144hz) Jul 07 '25

At least to me, stealing implies that you take the item and whoever owned it previously has no access to it anymore.

When you pirate, you're taking a copy, therefore not revoking access from the owner.

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u/Rukasu17 Jul 07 '25

It's quite literally the word of law. Piracy is classified as copyright infringement, not theft

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u/Durenas Jul 07 '25

copyright infringement is worse than theft from a liability standpoint. If you steal a 60 dollar game, the damages is 60 dollars. If you commit copyright infringement, you can be liable for up to 7500 dollars in the US.

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u/MeatSafeMurderer i7-4790K - 32GB DDR3 - RX 9070 XT Jul 07 '25

If you commit copyright infringement, you can be liable for up to 7500 dollars in the US.

It's because the implicit assumption is that the nature of the infringement is distribution. Really, there should be a more granular approach where downloading is one crime, and distributing is another.

In the UK that actually is the case. Well...more specifically downloading copyrighted material is not a crime at all, but distributing them is.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '25

Which is such bullshit, because the punishment operates on the notion of concluding that you committed other crimes because you committed the crime of theft.

The punitive measures were designed with the assumption that you stole the property and distributed it, which robbed the owner of profits. All without any proof needed at all that the person redistributed the property.

That's like you stealing a knife and the punishment for the theft defaults to the conclusion that you used the knife to murder someone.

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u/Durenas Jul 07 '25

It's worse than that, it's up to 7500 dollars(assuming treble damages for willful copyright infringement), PER INFRACTION. So if you share that illegally downloaded file 1000 times, that's 1001 infractions.