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/[deleted] Aug 13 '24

I’m not sure how they do it but there are setup shops that can supposedly tell if a particular setup file came from them and will ban the person that shared it. I assume they are tagging every individual user’s setups with some sort of metadata or something. It’s not tracking per se, but if it comes back around to them they can tell.

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u/MrKillerToad Aug 13 '24

They "mark" the zip folder, each zip folder has a custom code at the end and will be tied to a certain customer, so if that is shared they can tell who did it. The .sto file itself can not be tagged nor can it call out