>>818661It is not the contry, althou he said slavic friend, in which case i do not know.
In western Europe, the anti-piracy is driven by law-firms hired by specific companies. They'll send out a threat, with an opt-in settlement, A.K.A. fine. You should never pay, you should never respond. The case will never be taken to court, as the scale of proving that you have actually broken the law is incomprehensible and will not justify a few hundreds, or even a couple of thousands €/$. Just because your IP was detected in relations to a "cluster" that relates to a possible pirated unit, does not at all or in any way imply that your guilty of piracy.
If your address was found on a receipt in a bank that was robed, does that directly imply your the robber? No, but if it is by chance the robbers receipt, and the police study it, it might lead to further evidence.
Nobody in western Europe should do anyhing about the threats. Unless they know they have broken a lot of laws in that regard, and maybe are threatened by several companies at once. Maybe in a few peoples cases, the sheer amount of pirating might lead to a court case. But you would know if you're that deep in the mud, and you should just replace the hard drives you own, and fill it up with legal stuff (So the new ones look used)
If you have several HDD for pirated stuff, and things did actually get risky. Replace them all, if your poor, format them the best you can according to what you'll find on google. Then just set up a scheme where one is for OS, one is for steam games, on is for documents, one is for something like that. And just state that you like it organized, thats why you have those many harddrives. Also, you do a clean format every months because windows gets messy quick. (Not that big of a claim, i legitimately do this just because the mess is real.)
