SCE release Piracy Statement

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Kasz216 said:

Slimebeast said:

Kasz216 said:

 

Which, unless those PSPs were sold at a loss... again is helping the industry.   Some people who pirate 100% are hurting the industry sure, but that's a very small amount in comparison to most pirates who seem to be of the "I pirate some stuff and buy other" variety... and even then of the 100% pirate... most of them appear to be of the "couldn't afford it anyway" group.  In which case, nothing is being hurt really, and if anything it's maintaining that interest until they one day do have money.

What about all those millions and millions of people who pirate games, MP3s and movies just to spend their money on other things?

Typical example being the PC gamer who never buys a PC game but spends all that money on hardware instead (I am that guy).

Status quo for world economy perhaps, but it's money taken away from game developers.

You are in the vast minority and generally outweighed by pirates who aren't dicks. (No offense).

The money they lose by you is generally proven to be offset by other positive effects of piracy and other pirates... and in some cases more then offset.

What other effects that offset ?

Cause I'm not really sure a game like CoD BlackOps needs additional marketing after its 200 million$ tv campaign......

PS : what are these government studies you keep talking about ? ( a study by random university undegrad isn't a government study...)