Fearing a potential lawsuit, the pirate games repository GOG-Games has moved its base to the dark web this week.
This decision was made after ignoring a lot of DMCA requests from the CD Projektโs team โ as whose copyrights are being violated. And since the latter has threatened with a โfinal callโ, GOG-Games has decided to pull the plug for good and continue in the dark web.
Pushing Pirates to the Dark
CD Projekt has long been supporting anti-DRM protests, even though some of the popular games like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher Series are being pirated by others. But this support stopped when a pirate site named GOG-Games started flourishing โ with most games from the CD Projektโs GOG store.
While the game company is frequently sending DMCA notices to the pirateโs hosting to stop this practice, theyโve long ignored this. But now, assuming they were tired and triggered by the pirate site using their proprietary โGOGโ name, theyโre now forcing the pirate to end this illegal practice.
And they had succeeded, partially! Earlier this week, the GOG-Games showed up with a notice that theyโre pulling down their site on the surface web, fearing a potential lawsuit from the CD Projekt. In an email warning they shared, the rights holder (CD Projekt) team said;
โThe website is infringing GOGโs word by using it to brand an unlawful operation of downloading both CD PROJEKT Groupโs and third partiesโ games.โ
As it was noted as a โfinal callโ, the GOG-Games have decided to bow down โ and move their base to the dark web! In a new announcement on their website, the pirate team revealed their move, alongside an onion link and directions to use a Tor browser for accessing it.
Responding to this move, a spokesperson from the CD Projektโs GOG platform said to TorrentFreak that;
โPiracy is totally against those values and undermines the great work that developers and publishers do to create games we, and our community, cherish.โ
This doesnโt mean that CD Projekt is allowing the pirate site to continue its work, but closely monitoring for any serious violations. That being said, it continues to pursue investigations against such pirates in the future.