Atari Learns from Experience: “Think Before Acting!”
Video game producer Atari has ceased going after alleged video game file sharers in the UK for the time being as it’s no longer collaborating with London-based Davenport Lyons law firm, CDfreaks reports.
The law firm aforementioned was representing the game company in the lawsuits the latter had filled against file sharers suspected of illegally trading Race07 and other Atari video games via BitTorrent.
Davenport Lyons has sent many letters to alleged pirates who had to choose between paying £500 in compensation and face legal action.
Atari revealed some details to The Register in an e-mail:"In relation to file sharing, our position is that we always retain and reserve the right to protect our intellectual property from illegal copying and piracy. Whilst we are no longer working with Davenport Lyons, we continue to work with legal advisers to protect our rights."
In a recent case against a Scottish couple the game company successfully put itself in an embarrassing situation (read here our coverage of the event).
It’s to be expected that Atari and other similar companies will continue their pursuit after illegal file sharers but they will probably have to develop a more decent and efficient way of doing it since so far they mainly got bad press out of their latest attempts.
