theirs ntohing that can really be done, pirates will always be around

i'd be more worried about which users they are though.  i know quite a few wii pirates.  they always complain there isn't anything on the wii worth playing then i point out the games they like aren't selling well at least in part because you pirate.  then they say, but if i would pay if there was something actually worth paying for but then i remind them they never payed for any ps2 game either.  then we both give up and go back to ignoring the subject entirely.

maybe ... nah nevermind it was stupid... I was thinking of if you play the pirated game at the wii it would brick so that would be a good idea if that was possible :/

Piracy doesn't hurt game sales so much as it helps system sales.

There is a reason why Apple avoids easy piracy measures on it's Ipods and other such devices.

Pirates are usually people who don't feel like the product is worth the price, but want the product anyway.

If you take away there ability to get it free.... it doesn't change the fact that they think the product isn't worth the price.

If it were me, I'd kill the pirates from the inside. I'd place a mole in the group and sneak a virus code into every pirated game. That way, everyone who downloads the game would end up having a fatal system error in their consoles bwheeheh

Someone actually did that.  They got sued... and lost.

Which is kinda silly but, hey.  I dunno.

Piracy is equally easy across every platform, it's just how much people want to pirate, what they think is most worth it.

Kind of like most viruses targeting Windows, is mac more secure? of course not, in many ways it has worse protection than Windows, but no one wants to create a virus for an OS with 7% market share when they can get to 13 times the people on Windows.

You can't do that.

What you can do is make the system stops working after a system update though....

I don't get the difference, but hey i'm not a Lawyer.

Typical argument, I pirate but I woudn't buy the stuff if I wasn't pirating.....

How then do you explain the fact that music records revenue started to go down heavilly when more people started downloading MP3 on the web ???

Another case of they wouldn't have purchased any music if they could not pirate it ?

People pirate because they have lousy morals and are lazy and feel like they are entitled to get stuff for free and most likely won't get caught anyway and that's about it..........