What Drives Software Piracy?

I did not read the threat....but people should start using more open source software.
 
Look at the prices of BF3 & MW3.

Great games each... but the worst part is, that's not where the costs stop!

Think of whenever the game is updated, we talking close to 500MB patches, if you think we pay for 1GB, that's that price ontop of the price... so in a games life time, there will be about 10GB of patches ± just imagine how much it costs to actually buy BF3 or MW3 and patches can include DLC's.

PC game prices are slowly increasing with each passing year...
 
DarthCat said:
price and stupid copy protection let me pirate
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And companies try to make stronger copy protection in order to stop pirates....
And the loss of income due to pirating is also a factor in prices increasing. Trying to recover some losses.
The honest buyers are paying the price and the pirates further use it as an excuse....

In the end, pirating is defintely not helping to ease the situation...

YES most defnitely there are BIG problems with companies' especially when it comes to software UPGRADE prices.

Avid released ProTools 10 software, I think on the 24th October but wants to charge people $1000 dollars to upgrade, even if they bought their $6000 hardware on the 30th September. If they bought that same hardware on 1st October, they would've gotten the upgrade for free...
THAT'S ALL kinds of wrong! Then I honestly don't blame that person pirating that software!

All I'm saying is, the line needs to drawn somewhere and pirates need to accept that what they're doing could most definitely contribute to the problem they are complaining about.
So who then needs to take the first step to find a solution?

I remember reading about an iOS developer that sold only a few dozen copies of his apps but found out that there were more than 5000 people playing his game online....
I think the app cost only $0.99.... So he actually lost at least something like $3500 at that point, due to pirates...

Funny thing is, price and copy protection can't always be a valid excuse. After that the only thing left is wether people care enough to do the right thing....
$0.99 is still too high for so many people to do the right thing?
 
SLAQ said:
My personal reasons for the few software that I pirate is price, availability and "try before I buy". As a student I cannot buy products that I will only use once, but need full functionality (trails not good enough). For example: I needed a program that assists me in planning the layout of a breadboard efficiently for a project (Costs $70).

Another issue is the licensing of many software, I format often and if my license is one time use only it is hell to re install (Reason why I own a Windows 7 copy, but use a pre-activated pirated version.)

Finally, and I hope developers realize this, if your anti-piracy measures are disruptive to the legit user and a non-disruptive cracked version is available then your efforts will back fire!
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You are a student and you needed a program to assist you in planning the layout of a breadboard for a project. I pity the company that hires you.

How are anti-piracy measures disruptive to legit users ? A legit user isnt a software pirate. You are a thief. Nothing more.
 
At this very moment, I have installed Lion on an external USB HD which I will move into my Mac once I am happy with the state of it. I have this list of software that I simply must install on my machines whenever I acquire them. Things I need to be productive. On that list, two (so far) require activation. In both instances, I have purchased the software and in both instances, they will not activate. I contacted dev #1 on 15 November and have yet to receive a positive reply. I contact dev#2 three days ago and have yet to receive any reply at all.

All my software is legal. I have licenses for everything. Why should I not be allowed to install these two titles without all this hassle? I - as a legit buyer - am being punished. If I pirated these titles, I would be up and running.

Let's just say I am annoyed!
 
What drives piracy: means of distribution and lack of prosecution.

Analogy: Stealing a chocolate from a shop - people don't do often it even though the price of a chocolate is small, why because if you get caught you could be prosecuted and that has ramifications. Also you cannot steal a chocolate from the comfort of you home.
 
No man,.....

QUALITY drives piracy.

"Quality" just happens to be linked to price due to the time/effort that went into developing the item.
No quality product has ever come cheap or from little time/effort.

Everyone wants the "good stuff".
And they're willing to steal it.

It actually makes no difference if it's a Porsche or an Adobe product.
As long as it's desirable it will be stolen.

Nobody pirates crap software just like nobody steals crap cars.
 
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