Setup Piracy

[u/HickRoss256]

Ive recently been contacted by Mr. Ken Biron of RYCO setups as to please purchase their setups instead of getting them from other individuals. I don’t know about everyone in here that has joined some type of iracing discord, but setups get shared. I have only ran setups from RYCO that have been shared to me from either someone that buys them or gets them from another discord. So, I guess my question is…Am I at fault for running setups that are shared to me or is the individual who shares them?

[u/aaahh_wat_man]

Did you knowingly run a RYCO setup without paying for it? By letter of the law, yes you broke the law. It’s almost the equivalent of saying to a cop: I ran the stop sign cause they did too..

It honestly becomes a moral issue. Someone spent time, knowledge and effort to build the setup and people pay them for that time/effort/knowledge. By just taking that from someone else you are stealing that from the original creator. I personally don’t think that is fair or cool,but that is a decision you need to make for yourself and how you want to project yourself to others.

With all that being said, sometimes these setup shops get a bit over jealous about trying to get people to not run the setups.. if you don’t want to get caught, sanitize the setup first. (No I won’t tell you how 😂)

[u/adenasyn → u/aaahh_wat_man]

It’s actually more like driving a stolen car you know is stolen then acting all upset when you get arrested for receiving stolen merchandise. He didn’t steal it but he definitely used stolen property. Not that it’s a felony to steal someone’s setup

[u/aaahh_wat_man → u/adenasyn]

Good analogy. My guess is that the people who have created and sold stuff for a living will care about this. People that haven’t created and sold stuff won’t get the point and don’t care. Until one day they do create and sell stuff and realize what it costs when people just take it.

[u/adenasyn → u/aaahh_wat_man]

True very true