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morpheusx on 05 August 2009
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FayeC said:
morpheusx said:
Dinomax said:
MonstaMack said:
I wish more pirates would see more jail time.

I hope you see more jail time.

 

What?  Same logic, you most likely do a victimless crime and sent to an institution among voilent offenders.  Sounds fair.

So you look at it as a victimless crime. So lets see a publisher and developer end up not making enough money from the games they make because of piracy. So now they have to close up and go out of business because they can't pay their employee's and bills.  So that leaves hundreds of people out of jobs not to mention their families that may or may not have a place to live or go. The banks that they have mortgages with now have default loans not to mention the utilites that don't get paid must now absorb this as a loss possibly causing them to make cuts in employee's to make up the difference.  Its a vicious circle and by no means is a victimless crime.

 

Next time you create something see how you like it if someone takes it from you and then profits by doing it.  What if someone decided to steal "pirate" your final presentation report in college and then sells it to the rest of the class.  Sort of cruel how it works when you are the victim isn't it.

The only reason you think its victimless is because you don't have to look at your victim.

Publishers and developers lose far more to used games sales and rented game sales than they do to piracy. Piracy is like jaywalking. They may both be against the law, and neither maybe the right thing to do, and I'd even go as far as to say that both can have effects on others. That said, its extremely silly to think that people who pirate or jaywalk should be lumped in with killers and rapists.

 

On a personal level, I hope companies who throw away money on DRM and copyright proctect do lose money. It should teach them such things are pointless. If they redirect that money into better games then we all benifit, and maybe some of those who pirate will think the work is worth paying for.

Contrary to popular belief the publisher and developers make money off of rental games. There is a large chunk of people who will only buy games after they rent them or play the demo.  The rental store still has to buy these games. The sale of used games does not necessarily hurt the industry either otherwise they would find ways to eliminate chains like gamestop.  Here is the thing only about half of gamestop customers buy the used games, they buy often and usually in bulk.  These people are also usually hoarders meaning that they never trade back unless the game just sucks in which case the game usually has no value anyway, the only new games these people buy are the ones from the Platinum hits section. So this creates a bit of demand for used games which is good because this creates the other type of customer. This customer only likes new games and games that are current and it gets them to buy even more. This guy buys and trades a new game every 2 - 3 weeks that adds up to about 20 - 25 games per year.  This is similar to the guy who trades in his car every 2 years, if they didn't pay off his old car do you think he would still purchase the new one.  The guy that buys from the used car section never had any intentions of buying new.