EU Commission Says Piracy Increases Legitimate Game Sales

[Aeolus451]

DonFerrari said:

Aeolus451 said:

i didn't say that you were a socialist but rather that your idea is one. it woudn't work because thieves steal because they take what they want for free. Only way to curb piracy in gaming is to create alot stronger protections into the games like if someone tried to copy it, it would permantly corrupt the game data on the disc or upload virus onto the hardware that is illegally trying to copy it. I'm just giving those as examples btw. 

You know that the origin of the "first" widely distributed virus was a "copyright" prank? Two brothers in pakistan put a code in their medical SW that if someone would copy the content of the disk it would release this code that would say that you were breaking their copyright and if you wanted the message removed from your computer to call they number... but it spread much further than that and started showing overseas for people that never even touched their SW.

 

I didn't know about that and you make a good point in posting it. It's an interesting story, though. Hmm do you think someone copied it for shit and giggles or that it just spread from one infected HW to another? I think the game corruption would work though.