Friday, August 22, 2008
Again on piracy...
Well, after my previous post, some things has happened, so I thought you ALL be interested in some updated opinions of mine.Mainly two things in this last week attracted my attention. One is that in U.K. three big Gaming Companies have sued a number of people for having downloaded their games illigally (Main of which, pinball!!! But who is downloading pinball anyway?!? ). So, I thought, I should be happy, as I just said that I was against copying software. Well, I'm not. The reason I am not is that this is a completely useless move, these poor people will have to pay a lot of money and all the rest of the world will keep downloading unnoticed. I think the solution is to allow downloading and to let it pay a small amount of money for it. If someone wants a physical support, such the dvd or the blue ray, he will pay more. If the guy's happy with a downloaded version, then he could pay much less. This, in my opinion would decrease very much piracy.
So, why these companies keep getting some random money sueing people instead of taking a effective act? The answer has been clearly given by David Reeves, responsable of Sony Computer Entertainment, for the exact same country, UK:
"We know about it (game piracy, ndr), we certainly know how it's done. It sometimes fuels the growth of hardware sales, but on balance we are not happy about it."
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How to say, we will not allow it officially, but if you keep doing it, for us is ok....
Then, when asked what they are planning to do about the fact that games in the PAL region (Europe) are always coming much later then in the NTSC region (U.S. and Japan) he answers:
"We are a PAL market and we are going to do it in PAL and we are going to do it properly, you can wait for it and you can have it in good quality, you know you can get the stuff from Bittorrent if you want to and download PSP games, it's up to you."
So, now it's clear why company don't do something serious about it... and who am I to be against them?
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A lot of companies have made their fortune with privacy. Ps1 clearly won the battle against Nintento because its it was quite simple to copy its games, the same happened with microsoft against apple. The fight aganist piracy become real only when a monopoly occur...
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