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>they sound great in theory, but in practice exactly one person will buy the game that cost millions to produce, put it up on a website for free, and then the s
by b65e8bee43c2ed0 4mo ago
>they sound great in theory, but in practice exactly one person will buy the game that cost millions to produce, put it up on a website for free, and then the studio will say "well, never doing that again".
- john_strinlai 4mo agoyes, i wrote that. right now that would be illegal to do in most jurisdictions.
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 4mo agodespite that, people have been doing that for over two decades, but publishers continue to publish.
- john_strinlai 4mo agoright. that is because most people would rather buy the game than take the risk of downloading it illegally. if you remove the risk, the math changes. publishers also have legal recourse. remove that and the publisher's math changes.
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 4mo agopeople pay for convenience. when was the last time you heard about someone being prosecuted for pirating something?
- tmtvl 4mo agoJust yesterday when I saw the Leonhart French video about the NVIDIA piracy case.