it is not just crap games that get pirated.

look at some the the high profile Nintendo and 360 games.

By your logic only crap gets pirated.

I always knew AVATAR was a crap movie. In Australia about 50,000copies a day were downloaded for blu ray. I don't understand why considering the BluRay itself is only $24dollars. Most other BluRays here are 30-50 dollars each.

But you have taken something away. Their right to produce the product exclusively.

The whole fucking point is there. You can never call "dibs" on a idea. I believe ideas are simply discovered, not created. But we have created IP in order to make a more productive society, and because we believe that the "discoverer" should be allowed to profit from his effort.

Maybe I should make this simpler for you too because you really seem lost here.

If you clock every time at the 0ms check, then you would notice the 100ms lag. However that is highly imporbable so fi you click at say, the 80ms mark, and you have a ping of 10, your move is registered at that 100ms mark anyhow. If you have above 20 ping, you feel all 120ms after that because the command is moved to the next check. If you hit the button at 50ms and you have over 50 ping, as you most certainly would if you are going over Bnet, that means you'd feel the 150ms lag.

IN summation, you fail yet again. Lower pings improve gameplay even if the game has such checks every 100ms.

P.S. It's not about how fast you click, but about how fast your actions need to have effects, and with microing it needs to be immidiate. Mioght as well say ping doesn't matter at all for FPS cause the players only shoot about 20 times a minute. I'm sorry, but that's just not how it works.

Piracy sucks is bad for the gaming industry

BTW, I find it interesting how the iPhone is very pirated, and it still managed to surpass the PSP.

Actually the Dutch government said that it is utterly false. The US government's study got the same results. In fact if you readboth, piracy is better for the economy overall.

Piracy can be good for the consumer, if only to restrain price increases from content providers whether they are movie studios, music publishers or game companies because they know that if they increase the price too much the consumer has other alternatives to get the content.

Anyhow I see nothing in most of the above which is relevant to the original statement which is a few pirates download a heap of content and the only relevant statistic is the % of people pirating and not the absolute quantities of pirated content.

To the original post:

That is actually very interesting, and it actually makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Pirates will just pirate everything, whether they need it or not. Some may even pirate the same thing multiple times.

Couple this information with what the US and Netherlands found out some months ago, and it seems that piracy has almost no downsides, while it may have a bunch of upsides. Making it beneficial overall.

You make a lot of sound arguments. And you made an accurate assumption at the end. When it comes to digital material I've always gone for the most convenient option. These days I almost never have to obtain digital property illegally.

Bringing capitalism into the picture complicates things: the definitions of capitalism aren't widely agreed upon, nor is there any guarantee our understandings match. Though, your statements make as much sense to me as my statements.

One thing I will always feel entitled to is not getting ripped off. It's only natural to want value for money.

As for having choices and knowing if things blow or not, like I've said it's not always obvious if something blows or not. Piracy is an option in deducing the blow factor. Like someone else said though, even if I find out something doesn't blow if I already have it there is a pretty low chance I'll get around to buying it (though I've done it several times).

For the record I've never obtained physical property illegally. Stealing a DVD from a store resonates strongly as illegal. But, what is the difference between borrowing that DVD from a friend and making a copy of that DVD? They accomplish the same thing, we both experienced the information on the DVD and only one person paid for it. It's hard to make myself believe that something physical and some digital are the same: conceptually they aren't the same. I can't try to say digital copyright law is wrong or find some way of working around it or invalidating it. I can say it doesn't resonate as appropriate. 

You've really got me thinking about the actual definition of digital material and why I don't feel the same kind of guilt or barriers involved with physical theft. It's honestly something I'll have to give a lot of thought to. I know I'm not the only one to feel this way. Digital piracy simply doesn't bother a lot of people. I can't label it as right or wrong. Blindly following copyright law isn't the answer either.

OK, that's a more reasonable argument.  But I strongly suspect that when LAN is unavailable, SC's siren call will lead you straight to Bnet instead of you just not playing MP at all. 

As for your second point, BULLSHIT.  You put them in their place by refusing to buy overpriced or under-quality product.  Not "refusing to buy, followed by piracy". 

I do it all the time, if I think the game is good, I'd buy it. Apparently I'm not human, which explains a lot.