You have a couple of misconceptions here that need to be cleared up. For starters, we have this service concept. You think that companies, organizations ostensibly designed to acquire and accumulate capital, are beholden to provide the services and goods they produce without charging for them? I would think they would be…
I don't see software piracy as an activity to hurt the villains, as much as I see it as providing a service that the villains just refuse to provide. You have two things going on here. People want to download games from the internet. It's easier for a lot of people, and more comfortable. At the same times, games are…
Bigjohn: This is entertainment! It's not a product that someone's life depends on, you can live without it! It's an unnecessary service that simply enriches life for recreational purposes. There is no justification for pirating games, money or not. Consumers can live without it. I do agree that we could market selling…
Which actually, I saw something a couple of weeks ago about one of the publishers trying to stop EBGames from selling used copies, using exactly that kind of backwards logic that I'm against. That when people buy a used copy, EBGames makes a profit, and yet not EA. The irony with piracy is that the pirates have went out of…
You might find it interesting to note that Bram Cohen, the creator of Bittorrent also worked on the original version of steam for Half-Life 2s release. So in some ways your actually right about that. Im also going to agree with you that selling (not copying though) used games is the right of whoever owns that particular…
This was the best way for him to handle it PR-wise, note that he still never said it was okay for people to do it, and also that his particular game is very online centric and is structured around a verification system. This pretty much made up my mind on how the majority of pirates think, no motive, no honor, no gray…
Digital copies on most services are overpriced, true, that's why steam does so well with its sales. However, saying we should go pure digital is just foolish at this point in time. The infrastructure simply isn't there yet in most parts of the world, and even in developed nations it can be spotty. Even without that…