Emulators and roms is considered piracy but it is the only way to play some games because of how few physical copies was made. Likewise for other media such as early episodes of Doctor Who and other specials like the Star Wars Holiday Special that has nvr been re-aired. Some things can only survive thru it.

Also all the reports that has came out saying that piracy accounts for X percent of losses, or any other negative effect are pretty bogus and doesn’t use good methods of data gathering or uses bad sources. Publishers just assume that every copy that is sold there are 10 pirates.

Now in the last few years there have been the rise of indie devs that has to use piracy methods such as torrents to get get their products out and have people help spread it. Mojang allowed piracy of Minecraft and it became a hit. Recently there was a ad front page of Piratebay that was a free and complete download of an indie game called Anodyne. They might not make anything because it was offered on a “Pirate” site, but if you like it you can pay for it like anything else.

Indie devs don’t have the money or the patience either to go thru all the red tape BS to release their games on consoles either. The devs behind Super Meat Boy has said that before.

For large corp games, the pirated versions are usually better because whoever cracked it usually removes the DRM. A lot of Ubisoft’s always-on games had their’s removed. Pirated version Diablo 3 had their’s removed too. The people who got that game is angry cause now Blizzard is gonna release the game DRM free on consoles which makes it a better version and not even attempt to patch out the DRM for PC. The new SimCity is the same thru mods that make it be able to be played offline, but how long is it gonna be before they say no mods to get rid of that extra feature that should have been in the actual game?

Google abuses it’s power and gets rid of these so called “pirate” websites from it’s search engine. YET! Runs youtube which is probably the most publicly avalible form of music and video piracy on the internet.

Think about it.

So respond to bullshit (piracy) by enacting even more bullshit (not being able to truly own anything), sounds like the epitome of Pandora’s box, wouldn’t this encourage more piracy? seems like a self defeating and stupid strategy. as far as the gaming industry is concerned, “trying to recoup massive losses” how about the games in question just plain suck? or because they are ripoffs of other games with a different skin thrown on and called something else? or the completely original idea of releasing the same game every year with only slight changes, if any?

I was talking about entertainment industries. Like the music industry, who wants royalties who wants royalties paid whenever someone plays their music. Also, you aren’t looking at at the fact the gibson has a constant stream of guitars coming coming out, while a gaming company might only be profiting for 2 months every 2 years. David cage said that a game on average will only have a couple months to profit before used games sales take up the lalrge majority of sales.

Get over yourselves.

No other company that makes stuff gets royalties paid to them when somthing is bought second hand, whether its Gibson Guitars, or Fruit of the Loom. Why should gaming companies be granted a special set of rules? They should abide by the same rules that every other company in the market abides by.