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Alternatively stop stealing games and pay the game companies for their product and they wouldn't need to go to such great lengths to save their IP.

Semiapies 17y ago
I do. It somehow doesn't save me from dealing with the DRM and jumping through the hoops that people who don't just bypass. As the restrictions get more onerous and the hoops get higher, smaller, and set aflame, piracy will not go down.
- theBobMcCormick 17y ago
  Sadly, this is true. I ran into this recently with the DVD for the movie Transformers 2. I normally rip all of my movies onto my Boxee system (NOTE: I do this after I purchase the legitimate physical DVD copy of the movie, which I then keep!) It's not only more convenient to pick the movies from a menu, but more importantly for me, with two pre-teen kids in the house DVD's get scratched up fast if don't. Normally, this is a pretty easy process, but Tranformers 2 apparently has a rather aggressive copy prevention scheme that seems to defeat most DVD rippers. I finally found a ripper that would rip it successfully, but not until after I came very close to returning the damn DVD to the store after a friend at work showed me that the Pirates Bay had not only the full DVD version of Transformers 2 available for download, but the god damn Blue Ray version as well! It would have been easier for me to pirate the damn movie than to format-shift my legitimately purchased copy.
  - Semiapies 17y ago
    This is why Hulu, NetFlix, and such have an opportunity - they make it at least as easy to watch a streamed movie as to pirate it. Many people seem to want to use legitimate channels; the industry needs to realize that discouraging them is not the answer.
moollaza 17y ago
What about dropping the price of games? Perhaps if they weren't as expensive people wouldn't feel so inclined to pirate them. After all I assume that's why people pirate. No one wants to pay. However, even if it did cost less, I guess most people would still rather try to get it for free, rather than having to pay anything at all.

Semiapies 17y ago

I do. It somehow doesn't save me from dealing with the DRM and jumping through the hoops that people who don't just bypass. As the restrictions get more onerous and the hoops get higher, smaller, and set aflame, piracy will not go down.

theBobMcCormick 17y ago
Sadly, this is true. I ran into this recently with the DVD for the movie Transformers 2. I normally rip all of my movies onto my Boxee system (NOTE: I do this after I purchase the legitimate physical DVD copy of the movie, which I then keep!) It's not only more convenient to pick the movies from a menu, but more importantly for me, with two pre-teen kids in the house DVD's get scratched up fast if don't. Normally, this is a pretty easy process, but Tranformers 2 apparently has a rather aggressive copy prevention scheme that seems to defeat most DVD rippers. I finally found a ripper that would rip it successfully, but not until after I came very close to returning the damn DVD to the store after a friend at work showed me that the Pirates Bay had not only the full DVD version of Transformers 2 available for download, but the god damn Blue Ray version as well! It would have been easier for me to pirate the damn movie than to format-shift my legitimately purchased copy.
- Semiapies 17y ago
  This is why Hulu, NetFlix, and such have an opportunity - they make it at least as easy to watch a streamed movie as to pirate it. Many people seem to want to use legitimate channels; the industry needs to realize that discouraging them is not the answer.

moollaza 17y ago

What about dropping the price of games? Perhaps if they weren't as expensive people wouldn't feel so inclined to pirate them. After all I assume that's why people pirate. No one wants to pay. However, even if it did cost less, I guess most people would still rather try to get it for free, rather than having to pay anything at all.