| breadie2 said: DRM doesnt stop piracy, it encourages piracy, since the pirate copy is the superior one. Why doesnt the industry realize this? |
Because that would make too much sense.
People have been burned too many times by buying a crappy game for $50. If I can pirate a game, try it out, and then decide whether or not to buy it, that's MY ideal situation.
Obviously this isn't the case worldwide, some people pirate games with the intent of never buying a legitimate copy. If you're the CEO of a company, to gain public support and put up a "poor starving developer" persona, you say that everyone who pirates is a criminal, and each game pirated is a lost sale. Any form of common sense will tell you this is not the case, but this is about politics here, not the real world.
The harder a company pushes to impose DRM on the consumer, the harder the consumer will push back. See: EA
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