The thing that pisses me off the most about game pirates...

[vlad321]

numonex said:
If you think the 360 piracy rates are bad. Well PC game piracy is a lot bigger. Game developers have consequenntly turned away from PC game developments due to widespread piracy issues. Console gaming is considered less a problem from piracy due to it taking more effoet to pirate games: soft and hard mods are needed to play pirated games on consoles. Ironically the people who pirate PC games complain there games do not work online.

The Wii, DS and PSP all are plagued as much or more than the 360 in regards to pirates that adversely impact on game sales. Only the PS3 is the only console that is pirate free. If you so want a pirate free console and it is such a huge issue for you well PS3 is the answer.


Piracy adversely impacts on music, films, video game sales. The creative talent miss out on the profits they deserve for their artistic talents. The money a lot or pirates gets goes towards financing illegal activities such as terrorism and organised crime gangs. It is not as simple as poor people making money to support their families.

There may be poor people selling pirated goods to feed their familes but they are often work for organised crime syndicates who take most of the profits from the distribution of pirated goods. Authorities can only do so much in controlling piracy in their own backyards. Some poorer countries there are little or no piracy laws and autghorities can be easily bribed to remain silent on the issue.

Banning 360s from being played online is not much of a punishment it would be a lot worse if the consoles were bricked. Banned consoles would just be used by people to play pirated games offline.

It is so hard to detect a pirate these days. They no longer walk around with a peg leg, an eye patch, a hook and yellow teeth.

http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-research-p2p-filesharing-no-barrier-to-music-sales/

 

I reposted this especially for you because you seem to fail at reading..... Pirates actually account for a larger amount of money that the music industry makes than non-pirates. I don't see how that's an adverse impact, unless their goal is to make as little money as possible.In which case then yes, pirates advsersely impact the industry....

 

@Senlis

I didn't say you pay for each time you take a piss in a toilet. I said every time you take a piss, i hope to god you don't pay when you water the trees.

Edit: I have a feeling people are too lazy to read or just lack reading comprehension so I will quote the most important part of the link here:

"Adults who download music from unofficial channels also spend £30 per year more on physical and digital music than people who don’t, according to a survey by the Demos thinktank of 1,008 people aged 16 to 50.

The study - funded by Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) - says a third of adults go illegal. But the additional money they spend contributes £200 million to the music economy each year"

As I said earlier. This won any argument against piracy. Your only defense was "it hurts the industry and people" when apparently it's more like "it sitmulates the industry and people."

Edit 2: This is for people lacking intellectual capabilities. Notice that the study was done by effing Virgin Media, a record label. If anythign they are skewing the statistics AGAINST the pirates, not in favor of.