Sims 3 to be one of the most pirated PC games

[NJ5]

JaggedSac said:

NJ5 said:

JaggedSac said:
Don't they know that the internet makes it so that people are entitled to everything without paying. It is our right, as internet users, to get everything that we want, without providing compensation for the products we use.

What does this have to do with the Internet? As I recall it, people were quite efficient at pirating stuff before the Internet became popular.

 

Yeah, I know, someone could get a full copy of Commander Keen from a BBS.  I never did it though, because I had respect for people, and I didn't want my phone line tied up for god knows how long.

And are we talking all forms of piracy?  Or just the digital distribution?  Because the digital distribution aspect of piracy has taken off temendously this decade, mainly since the P2P craze starting in the early part of this decade, Napster and all those P2P clients, BitTorrents, etc.  I would need some compelling evidence saying otherwise to convince me otherwise.

I was talking about piracy in general. My point was that it's not the Internet making people feel entitled to copy software, the Internet is just the most convenient form of doing it nowadays.

Before the Internet was popular, people would just copy games and programs to floppy disks and exchange them with each other. I know when I was young I got tons of PC games that way, in fact it was the only way I ever got PC games (I never even saw any shop selling them back then to tell the truth; it was easy to get music CDs and people bought them, but shops selling computer games must have been much more rare in Portugal).

And yeah, I remember some of those games had readme.txt files from BBSs, I guess some of the software originally came from one of those. Most of the people I knew had never accessed them, or even knew how to do it (me included).