ssj12 said:
nightsurge said:
Mudface said:
Slimebeast said:
The large majority of PC gamers are pirates, especially guys that play shooters, so it's pretty safe to say that the majority of those who signed the petition are pirates.
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These figures would tend to disagree with your assertion, especially as a fair percentage of those downloads would later translate into sales. There's a lot of piracy for sure, but nowhere near a majority of PC gamers are pirates.
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But thats just ONE torrent site: BitTorrent. Pirates use uTorrent, Vuze, ArcticTorrent, Aria2, BitCommet, Bitflu, BitLet, BitThief, BitLord, CTorrent, Deluge, Halite, KTorrent, etc. etc. That link you posted just goes to show that the majority of PC gamers ARE pirates because on just one Torrent Client you already have 830,000 downloads of CoD4. I imagine the pirated copies of CoD4 actually far outnumber the legitimate ones!!!
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you really have no idea how a torrent file works... a single file can be uploaded to all those sites. All stats tracked for 1 file will translate into the majority due to all seeds and peers being connected to a tracker that downloads from ONE point. AND, it doesnt matter what the main file for the torrent is named, MW2 crack, MW2 pirated, MW2 steal, etc could easily be all the same torrent named differently due to the main URL for the files being ONE TRACKER location.
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Wow... thanks for being way late to the party. I know how it works... they didn't specify "protocol" so I thought it was referencing just users of BitTorrent client, not the whole. I don't go on to lots of BitTorrent news postings to know how they reveal information on downloads so I took it at face value. K-thx-bye.
