Actually, huge amounts of market concentration is target at the lower classes and rightfully so ( for an even more dickish sounding reason ) The further down the chain you are, in thriving markets you are practically farmed. The upper and middle class invest and save huge amounts of their money. The upper 10 percent's…
I was wondering what everyone thinks about possible solutions to piracy. Basically I find it hard to believe that a PC game could not be piracy protected or have enough stumbling blocks to deter potential pirates. As an industry we complain about piracy, but in my experience encryption and piracy protection are left until…
Nobody cracks encryption (assuming it is an actually good encryption like Rijndael or Twofish)... It would simply take too long. In any case encryption doesn't really prevent piracy, that's what copy protection is for. Copy protection is what gets beaten, not encryption. There's really only two ways to identify a…
I think first you need to look at the reasons why people resort to piracy. I think the main ones are: 1. It's free (duh) 2. Less hassle 3. Disgruntlement The first one is obviously hard to combat and by far the most prevalent, but I think that many games nowadays aside from indie games are just overpriced. If we compare…
I feel I have to say something about this use of the words "stealing" and "theft". It's a complete misuse of the terms. To steal something is to remove it from the owner's possession and deprive them of use of their property. This is how the law sees it and that's how it should be. What people do on the internet is…