This service already exists and is completely legitimate, its called Gamefly. Charging people a fee to carry out illegal activities is not a business model, and the same people who would rather torrent a game than buy it or rent it, will refuse to use your service as well.
It was an idea. I didn't say it was a complete and working solution. To your point though, they don't provide such a service for PC. At least not GameFly.
I've seen a few people in this thread refering to services that make good alternatives to piracy(spotify, netflix etc.), I just wanted to point out the very americanised view there is on this debate, and I can understand since most people there live and work in the US where these services are avaible. Now, to counter-point…
A better deal. Right now no matter how morally correct it is to support the creators, for a lot of gamers, piracy nets you the exact same experience entirely for free. We're seeing a lot of services bundled with the products right now, and that's a way to combat this. Toplists, online multiplayer, sharing game content, etc…
Yep Zpanzer, I totally agree. Once you get used to such services it is pretty hard to go back and I know that being unable to access them is quite a bummer - especially since having to purchase physical copies of everything is just plain expensive. For instance I can watch a whole series on netflix over the span of a few…
Just a few thoughts on the matter. When I was a kid, I would download the shit out of everything, mainly because A. I had no money, B. it was relatively easy and C. I was all like "fuck the man rah rah" etc. These days I rarely pirate anything, aside from the random album here and there. This is generally because of two…
Well, I can't speak from personal experience that I can recall, but Assassin's Creed 2 had some pretty game breaking DRM on it that the hackers cracked and made a better piece of software of it. Who wants to play a game that stops and loses your progress just because your internet service had a hiccup? Oh, here's an…
I'm aware of you can bypas their country restriction, and I've considered doing it, but for me it would be mean I would have to make a new paypal account and pretend I had a norwegian adress, and I thought it would be very ironic that I have to do something illegal to gain acces to a service as an alternative getting all…
I'm surprised so many here think that cracked software on torrent sites are generally broken, flawed versions of their legal counterparts. I've used cracked software and I can assert with confidence that this is not the case. I have only encountered two pieces of software that would not work for me and that was DRM…