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

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Burek said:

Anfebious said:

It's not really astounding, you just happen to live in a country where piracy is frowned upon (and actually takes measures against it). Here in Argentina, we pirate so hard that even teachers use pirate movies to teach kids. It's normal stuff over here (almost too normal).

We are so fucking hardcore.

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.

They have the same thing in The Netherlands (at least when I lived there). Is that a good solution? Why do I need to pay a tax for my home videos. Plus does you isp pay that same tax for every GB you download? With streaming this tax on rewritable media has become outdated and pointless. Only the pirates win.

Btw in the future a general tax on bandwidth can still happen. The battle is long from over.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/digital-culture/canadian-downloaders-should-expect-a-copyright-notice-in-the-mail/article22336673/

Now you have companies trying to scam the pirates, karma lol
http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2015/04/22/canadians-under-no-obligation-to-pay-for-piracy.html

They have been tracking illegal downloads for years, this is from 2011
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388261,00.asp