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Originally Posted by Chivas
I'd be interesting and laughable to see how many people here, who are so against any kind of game protection, would change their tune, if they owned a percentage of the PC game.
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nothing wrong with copy protections, as long as they dont damage my pc and as long as those copy protections dont create major hassles or problems for the real customers (for ex the starforce crap cost me 2 dvd-writers, and i payed for the game that caused this, and guess what the con artists who made the "feature" are nowhere to be found when i want them to provide me with a replacement drive, what a surprise)
the biggest problem with software piracy is organized commercial mafia syndicates selling games/software/video's in 2e and 3e world countries that dont enforce copyright laws (like china, india, russia, eastern europe etc..). it is extremely rare for this to be marketed in a large scale that way in western europe, the north american mainland, auz and nz, japan etc.... the problem there is not the end user buying a copied game/video, it is the corruption in law and order (which usually has kickback's and payoff's from the local cops all the way up the "official" bureaucracy in those countries), and it is usually deliberately not addressed by the politicians (for ex 95% of all chinese computers used in their official government offices run on pirated software), and there is a complete lack of enforcement and regulation of copyrights.
for those western developed markets where various branches of governement and law and order will do their part in enforcing copyright laws, copyright infringement problems are mostly from one teenager making a game/video copy for a school friend, and most of what they give each other for free they wouldnt spend their money on if it could only be accessed by purchasing it anyway, because they wouldnt be interested in it enough. to inconvenience the real customers in those richer developed markets with half baked and clumsy or faulty protection schemes is foolish, because that is the only place these games/video/software makers can get any money from.