All this fuss about Medievia has been huge publicity for them. In this case, yeah, I think even bad publicity is good for them. Especially when it's noted that, despite all the old news being rehashed about their alleged violations and the "documented evidence" often cited and linked, the owners haven't been successfully sued nor have they been convicted as thieves. Yet many people seem comfortable slapping the "criminal" label on them.
That's the sort of thing that takes a good debate about misuse of intellectual property and turns it into little more than hair-pulling and histrionics.
It's like we all want to pretend to be lawyers - or villagers with torches and pitchforks. Or, hey, forget that: Let's be the judge, jury and executioner too.
Have Medievia's owners behaved questionably over the years? Sure seems like it. Are they criminals? No - they haven't been sued or convicted in civil or criminal court, respectively. So, until then, it's fine to rail about the unfairness of it all and continue sending hits to their site. But stop throwing the criminal label around, please, unless you're going to pony up cash so the developers of DIKU can successfully bring civil suit against Medievia - if they even ever intend to do so.
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