Kerr Avon wrote:but it does seem strange for his equipment to be confiscated if (as far as I know) all he has done is to break the protection on commercial games.
As was already pointed out, this is standard practice for collecting and protecting evidence. It will be returned to him once the police takes / learns whatever data they need from it.
Kerr Avon wrote:What he has done is legally wrong, and also wrong morally
Not all countries have laws that say that the act of cracking itself is illegal, although if he was also distributing the cracked software, then that in itself is a clear copyright infringement, which is indeed illegal in most jurisdictions. Don't want to get into the moral discussion here.
Kerr Avon wrote:to a lot of people, myself included, will see his arrest as treatment as being harsh and overkill
Where did it say he was actually arrested? His original post only claimed he had to "go to the police and explain himself", meaning to give a testimony, which is the obvious thing to do when someone presses charges / files a lawsuit against you. I don't believe he is in custody, is he?
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