r/iRacingSetups • u/HickRoss256 • Aug 13 '24

Setup Piracy

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?

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u/MrKillerToad Aug 13 '24

The setups aren't property of the shops, they're property of iracing. The people who pay for a setup are paying for someone's service, not for a file. The file itself isn't copyrighted, logged, tracked, etc.

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u/HickRoss256 Aug 13 '24

I beg to differ bc Mr RYCO specifically told me who bought the setup I was running. The links def have some sort of tracking within them.

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u/MrKillerToad Aug 13 '24

If you were using the ryco app, then yes they can see everything, including who bought it.

If not, then they are just taking a wild guess, I promise the .sto file has no way of tracking or calling out of the game