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==Anti-piracy actions== In 2005 [[Zuxxez Entertainment]] hired law firm [[Schutt-Waetke]] to charge more than 18,000 German [[File sharing|filesharer]]s for copyright violation. Fines between 150 to 650 Euros were levied.<ref name="LOGISTEP">[http://p2p.p2.ohost.de/artikel/strafanzeigen_maschine.htm Strafanzeigen-Maschine gegen Tauschbörsen-Nutzer] (German collection of news reports), citing [http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/print/64181 heise online - 22.09.2005 - Strafanzeigen-Maschinerie gegen P2P-Nutzer arbeitet weiter] (German) Retrieved 2008-09-11</ref> The producer Dirk Hassinger had noticed there were far more players on the online game server than registered buyers (all the game's copy protections systems had been hacked and a small program was automatically generating serial numbers), leading him to start monitoring the filesharing networks for illegal shares.<ref name="LOGISTEP"/> The Swiss firm [[Logistep]] offered him a package that would gather data valid for legal actions and automatically generate the charges ready for digital submission to the court in Karlsruhe.<ref name="LOGISTEP"/> Two weeks later Hassinger's lawyer submitted one CDROM containing 13,700 charges to the court, each one also printed as a courtesy. By post each defendant received an offer: pay 50 Euros now and the case is dropped. Most paid up. Hassinger's lawyers also sent demands that each downloader sign an undertaking to never again share copyrighted software, plus an invoice for 200 to 500 Euros.<ref name="LOGISTEP"/>
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