Downloading a NOCD crack is as illegal as downloading the game itself.

Your right its like photo radar speeding tickets. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty. Even the photo radar tickets are more reasonable, around 200$, also they send you a letter stating if you did not use your car, who did. With open wifi connections thats hard to say.

The obscene 1200$ charge is whats really nuts, if you stole a game from a store I doubt you'd be charged that much for a 60$ game. The funny thing is its not being taken from anywhere just copy pasted.

What I dont like the most about it all
No trial
Insanely high fines
Given their power to do this by lobbying which is legal bribes to political officials

You are right. They will go out of business if I or no one else buys the game. Illegal downloading is a whole other matter entirely.

"The obscene 1200$ charge is whats really nuts, if you stole a game from a store I doubt you'd be charged that much for a 60$ game. The funny thing is its not being taken from anywhere just copy pasted.

What I dont like the most about it all
No trial
Insanely high fines
Given their power to do this by lobbying which is legal bribes to political officials"

Exactly why the game companies handle this civil court instead of criminally. Using the old "You would not got into a store and steal it" argument, If you actually did go into the store and steal it, depending on where you were caught, and being a first time offender, the person would probably only get a small fine and limited jail time or probation.

Piracy is a business model for companies to capitalize. It is a scam. There has not been one AAA gaming company that has went out of business solely because of piracy and they complain about it the most.

I'm going to guess that they weren't 100% certain on all their cases and instead of dealing with bad PR which would likely cost them more in the long run than the net gain from these individuals they decided to drop the whole thing.

I wonder why the developer cares if I download their game and play it. I would not buy it anyway, even if it was not torented. So they actually will not gain anything either way. So why bother at all.

Lol, couldn't have said it better. People pirate video games for two main reasons. They can't afford to dish out 60 dollars on several titles a month and because they are not that interested enough to purchase it. If pirating did not exist, these people would either borrow these games from friends after they are done, rent them, wait until the price drops significantly (after a year or two), or simply not bother with it at all. This mean the revenue to be gained from this market is very minimal.

PS: If you want more people to buy your product, consider adding a quality multiplayer to your game. Without private servers(which usually suck) or programs like Hamachi, pirated versions of your title will be almost useless.