Digital piracy under the spotlight

thing I hate about most of these debates is that they assume that every copied game/movie/song equates to a song/movie/game you would have actually bought...which is bullocks, there are countless people that simply just try before they buy, heck I do. I love games, love the industry and I first download a game then try it, if I like it I buy it. Not interested in having shelves fulled with games I didn't like.
 
<moLe> said:
thing I hate about most of these debates is that they assume that every copied game/movie/song equates to a song/movie/game you would have actually bought...which is bullocks, there are countless people that simply just try before they buy, heck I do. I love games, love the industry and I first download a game then try it, if I like it I buy it. Not interested in having shelves fulled with games I didn't like.
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Quite.

Same thing goes for DVDs and music for me. The idea that I should not be taking what is not legally mine is all well and good, but the idea that if I were not able to access this material for free, I would be willing to pay a ridiculously high premium for it is fatally flawed.

I simply would not buy it at all.
 
They fighting with downloading of various software. They plan to reintroduce caps. They already have done throttling in Canada.
 
Jagtiger said:
They fighting with downloading of various software. They plan to reintroduce caps. They already have done throttling in Canada.
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The US does not even know what caps are for the most part.

And when they are talking about reintroducing them, do they not mean like 100GB caps on 100Mb lines or something? :o
 
Almost all of the content that I download is either legal or can be obtained legally.

Stop worrying about what I'm downloading and focus on begging able to get me the content that I want at a good price !
 
I've noticed that the "classics" games seem to sell quite well - probably for two reasons:

1) Most people can run the games without major hardware upgrades
2) The pricing is actually close to reasonable - in the range of what someone is comfortable spending as an impulse buy
 
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For $70. I would not mind.
 
Jagtiger said:
According to industry estimates cited by the US Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, global piracy costs US firms over 25 billion dollars in lost sales annually.
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Keep telling yourself that. There might be no way that every mp3/game/avi pirated represents money that pirate would have spent on a legal copy, but imagine working for an industry that is looking to axe your job next due to lack of income...
 
Make all these mp3/games/software as cheap as possible and you will have more people buying the stuff.
 
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