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In the limit when 100% of the society pirates, what happens then? Is there a concrete theory that after a certain threshold, piracy plateaus? Piracy is mostly
by systemvoltage 3y ago
In the limit when 100% of the society pirates, what happens then? Is there a concrete theory that after a certain threshold, piracy plateaus?
Piracy is mostly dependent on availability, pricing, value proposition, regional parity and affordability. Steam is a great example of how to tackle piracy.
- slackfan 3y agoSteam and F2P basically killed piracy for games (and streaming services nuked it for movies) in Russia, for instance, somewhere where I'd estimate 80-98% of everything was pirated. With the current situation there's been a revival of the piracy scene in Russia like it's 2005 all over again.