Video Game Piracy costs the industry as much as it makes!

[Burek]

Anfebious said:

Burek said:

In Croatia everybody pirates everything. But the industry adapted: Instead of hunting down individuals for a few movies or games (which is pointless anyway) the Government and the copyright holders reached an agreement by which downloading content is not persecuted (not legal either), and in return they get a small percentage of sales of every recordable media (CD, DVD, harddrives, USB sticks etc...). Everybody wins in a way, without expensive litigation.

That's a great move, too bad that Argentina doesn't realy do anything aside from blocking TPB (which can be bypassed easily by typing "TPB proxy" on google).

People still use TPB? Kickass and Extratorrent are much better, and of course private sites are a must if you seek quality.

Another winner from piracy are ISPs, they make good money from all the people choosing more expensive, faster packages, retailers sell truckloads of harddrives and USB sticks etc.