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Originally Posted by Chivas
Do you actually think developers and publishers would spend huge amounts of monies to protect their property if there wasn't a piracy issue. Its also highly unlikely they're doing it just to piss off their customers. They have to do something as the internet regulators are doing nothing to stop the obvious illegal downloads.
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you'r mixing up to many concepts and trying to make them into a drinkable soup, not all of what you said fits together
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Originally Posted by Chivas
Do you actually think developers and publishers would spend huge amounts of monies to protect their property if there wasn't a piracy issue.
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yes there is a piracy issue, and yes some basic protections are needed, but keep that in the context that wholesale and bulk piracy is not being address. also "adding protection" should not equal inconveniencing and damaging genuine customers, it is possible to avoid that to.
and spending "huge monies" as you say it, to add a faulty and inconvenient copy protection doesnt mean that the amount of money spent directly equals the quality level of the copy protection either. you can spend smaller money on it more smartly, and have a better result
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Originally Posted by Chivas
Its also highly unlikely they're doing it just to piss off their customers.
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copy protections are often only added as an afterthought, once the product is finished, this then limits the methods they can cheaply apply to add copy protection. the end result in many cases is that they do piss off the real customers, and this shows their professional incompetence in marketing software to their real target market. add to that that they simply dont care if they piss people off as long as the sales drones make money, and you end up with the mess we have in the last few years.
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Originally Posted by Chivas
They have to do something as the internet regulators are doing nothing to stop the obvious illegal downloads.
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it is not the big bad internet that is the problem, or the lack of enforcement tools by commercial internet companies to infringe the rights of citizens in western countries, it is the fact that the biggest source of large scale piracy is not being address.
and why is it not being addressed you may ask ? simply put, because there are additional even larger scale "other commercial interests" at work in those same "markets" that over rule or push aside those smaller copyright interests of the entertainment industry. for ex your and my government actively engage those copyright infringing countries in international trade negotiations to make agreements that benefit ford, bmw, mastercard, siemens, hoffman laroche, bayer, shell, Lockheed-Martin, etc... so that those companies are given access to those markets (free trade agreements, and "market access" agreements), and in exchange of those large companies getting access for their products our governments will tolerate some minor issues not being addressed, err like like lack of copyright enforcement for example.
the enemy of pirated games is not us the legitimate customers and aviation enthusiasts, it is large criminal piracy syndicates and corrupt government officials in 2e and 3e world countries. and yes, there are solutions to this that still allows my kids to play their games while on hollidays, and doesnt require my pc hardware to be damaged.