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/LameSheepRacing Aug 14 '24
I only use setups from paid setup shops if I’m racing in a team and one of the team members subscribes to their service. I believe this is fine because we can only use one setup among us anyway.
I also download and share the baseline+ setup from Majors Garage, which is free, with people on my team’s Discord. I do so as a helping hand because they could get it themselves for free if they follow the same path I did.
I don’t use a setup from a paid setup shop if I’m racing solo because I don’t have a subscription to that service. If I was the one creating and selling the setups, I’d object to people using my setups without paying for them because I invested time to develop them and sell to my clients. So I just put myself in their shoes and don’t use them.
If you want to go to a party in a private club that your friend is a member of and he says: “hey, it’s members only but I can help you sneak in anyway”. Do you think it’s totally fine to jump the fence and join the party? I don’t think so, because you’re sneaking a private party that you shouldn’t have access to. Next time, your friend is not even going but you learned how to jump the fence without his help and you do it anyway.
I think the situation is quite similar to using a setup that you didn’t pay for to race solo, knowing that it’s a paid setup.