Intellectual property is important to companies, and they will prosecute people who violate it. But they’re not always right. Take what happened Scotland’s Gill and Ken Murdoch, who were accused by Atari of sharing the game Race07. As the couple, aged 54 and 66, told consumer magazine Which, they’d never played a video game in their lives.
The Murdochs received a letter giving them the option of paying around $900 in compensation or be taken to court. Gill Murdoch said:
"We do not have, and have never had, any computer game or sharing software. We did not even know what ‘peer to peer’ was until we received the letter."
