Question about owner rights - SOW BOB

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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Ok, maybe if the US release of SoW was earlier than the EU one, i bet most of the european fans would download a copy while waiting for their original boxed set to arrive, but since they would buy it anyway that doesn't count as piracy

Legally it is still piracy.

The anti-piracy sales people would count it as a lost sale (and lost money), too, even if it really wasn't.

Just like i said before if a company wants to do something about it, all they have to do is chose a method that will delay the widespread pirating of the game for the first 6 months so that they can make some good sales because wether anyone of us likes it or not, beyond the 6 month point ALL high profile games are already cracked. At that point, the company can aknowledge this fact and instead of keeping in place a system that's already been bypassed by pirates, they can patch it away themselves and save some legitimate customers the hassle of dealing with DRM.

Once most of the sales are made, there's no profit to be made on that game by taking the DRM off it, and there are costs to taking the DRM off, so the DRM will stay in most cases. On rereleases it may be doable if the DRM was notorious, but rereleases are usually budget, so removal of DRM doesn't happen often, though granted it sometimes has.