What's preventing people from stealing this site's numbers?

[bugrimmar]

MontanaHatchet said:

bugrimmar said:

Xen said:
Because if BugriChartz ever becomes a popular site, questions about the numbers will arise, and VGC will notice it's copying the numbers from it, too... as VGC's numbers will always come first.

From there it's copyright infrigiment etc etc etc

1.) BugriChartz WILL become popular.

2.) what if I change the numbers a little bit, shave off some sales here and there, format the numbers differently, etc.. then I can claim that they're not copies anymore yes?

3.) what if I hire say.. TheSource (or you) to leak the numbers to me before they're posted here?

1. No it won't. What about BugriChartz would make it popular when people could just go to Vgchartz instead?

2. Someone is going to wonder where the sales come from sooner or later, and you (or this imaginary person) will have to answer.

3. TheSource, from what I've heard, is a paid employee of the site. I doubt he'd leak the numbers to some random person and betray ioi.

1.) Um... BugriChartz sounds better. :P

2.) Hm, is there any real way to prove that this imaginary person copied? I mean.. he could easily just as well claim that he gets the data in a similar fashion as Brett, or that Brett copied him.

3.) What if this random person were to pay twice what TheSource usually earns? :P