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As long as there are large populations unable to afford there will be piracy. Also pirated products are genuinely better - games can be modded, no activation.
by venomsnake 12y ago
As long as there are large populations unable to afford there will be piracy.
Also pirated products are genuinely better - games can be modded, no activation. Tv shows are simultaneously released and so on ...
Of course we have some attempts at cloudwashing software, but I doubt they will be successful. The benefits of cloud are tiny compared to the freedom of having code run on hardware you control.
- amelius 12y ago> As long as there are large populations unable to afford there will be piracy. The question is: is that a bad thing? Because in that case, a download does not equal a loss of sale.
- venomsnake 12y agoA download is rarely a lost sale - for us to count it as one (talking about games) you need to download it, install it and play trough it. I know people with 5-6 TB of music on their drives. Or books - that is more that a person could consume, ever. So counting them as lost sales is absurd. I have pirated a lot, but with steam available I both rebuilt my pirated catalog - their sales helped a lot, and rarely bother with piracy lately - my backlog is so big, that I can literally wait a couple of years for the game to come to 90% off.