SCE release Piracy Statement

[Kasz216]

Ail said:

Kasz216 said:

Slimebeast said:

Kasz216 said:

 

Which, unless those PSPs were sold at a loss... again is helping the industry.   Some people who pirate 100% are hurting the industry sure, but that's a very small amount in comparison to most pirates who seem to be of the "I pirate some stuff and buy other" variety... and even then of the 100% pirate... most of them appear to be of the "couldn't afford it anyway" group.  In which case, nothing is being hurt really, and if anything it's maintaining that interest until they one day do have money.

What about all those millions and millions of people who pirate games, MP3s and movies just to spend their money on other things?

Typical example being the PC gamer who never buys a PC game but spends all that money on hardware instead (I am that guy).

Status quo for world economy perhaps, but it's money taken away from game developers.

You are in the vast minority and generally outweighed by pirates who aren't dicks. (No offense).

The money they lose by you is generally proven to be offset by other positive effects of piracy and other pirates... and in some cases more then offset.

What other effects that offset ?

Cause I'm not really sure a game like CoD BlackOps needs additional marketing after its 200 million$ tv campaign......

PS : what are these government studies you keep talking about ? ( a study by random university undegrad isn't a government study...)

Some of the ones I posted in this thread?  By government studies I mean... studies done by the governments.  Which include American, Japanese, Netherlands and England.  None could find ANY negative effect of piracy on the industry.  The "most" favoring non MPAA or other copyright group research project to your point of view is the American one which basically states "There are a lot of positives to piracy too, and we can't tell what the effects of piracy are because it's too hard."

Though even "random universities" hold more value and sway then studies directly paid for by one of the principle participants who have a direct outcome in exagerrating the truth.

Like... yourself.   You write software so your all to willing to buy into some errnonius studies.

Me, I don't... nor do I pirate.  Not even MP3s.

I simply go by the facts and credible research... it's the advantage of having an outside view of things.