Tag: Topware Interactive
Woman made example of – fined £16,000 for illegally downloading a game
Poor old Isabella Barwinska just wanted to have a bit of fun playing pinball on her PC with her friends, but she’s ended up with a £16k fine after being tracked down via the P2P network she used.
Isabella unwisely chose to nick a copy of Pinball Dreams 3D off the internet, no doubt attracted by its wide variety of tables and realistic arcade gameplay! But she was rumbled, and recently ordered to pay damages of £6,086.56 and costs…
£10,000 fine for Dream Pinball 3D file-sharers
A British court has fined four file-sharers for uploading Dream Pinball 3D onto an illegal website where it was subsequently bagged for free by a host of other users.
Solicitors for the the game’s US producer, Topware Interactive, successfully sued the defendants for £750 each…