EA Sports boss Peter Moore has said he doesn’t support the move to sue consumers for illegal downloading - warning, “It didn’t work for the music industry.”
Moore was speaking to GamesIndustry at the Leipzig Games Convention, following the announcement that five games companies are taking legal action against 25,000 file-sharing internet users.
“I’m not a huge fan of trying to punish your consumer,” he said. “Albeit these people have clearly stolen intellectual property, I think there are better ways of resolving this within our power as developers and publishers.”
According to Moore, there are lessons to be learned from the experiences of other industries. “If we learned anything from the music business, they just don’t win any friends by suing their consumers,” he observed. “Speaking personally, I think our industry does not want to fall foul of what happened with music.”
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