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There's a lot of outrage about this -- a lot of frustrated consumers. I think its naive to assume that Square-Enix didn't have data that said "Money lost to pi
by jmduke 13y ago
There's a lot of outrage about this -- a lot of frustrated consumers.
I think its naive to assume that Square-Enix didn't have data that said "Money lost to pirates > Money to be gained from legitimate purchasers on jailbroken devices."
That being said, pirates always seem to win the DRM-escalation arms race -- and the PR blowback from this will probably outweigh the extra purchases they snag.
- stcredzero 13y agoThe reason why pirates seem to always win, is that it is highly asymmetric. To do this correctly takes more patience and sneakiness than 90% of executives have in the technology context. Not everyone can be Irwin Rommel or Laurence of Arabia.