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Originally Posted by elcreative
Just playing Devil's Advocate for the moment... why bother doing back catalogue if it's going to be pirated anyway... and how horribly unreasonable of publishers... not only haven't they turned all of the last year's books (est at 230,000 titles) into eBooks but they haven't even done all the millions in their back catalogues... how dare THEY??  |
While that does make sense it almost makes none at all. I thought they were complaining about piracy. One cant say something like 'No use getting these books scanned, theyre being pirated anyway' and then complain about piracy. Thats like saying the same thing about regular books. No use scanning up that new
Wheel Of Time, its being pirated anyway. When will they stop encouraging the pirates? Its obvious from piracy that again, some will pirate no matter what, but most will pay if given the opportunity. Not giving the opportunity completely takes the argument away from them. They can complain all they want but I doubt anyone will listen.
Truthfully the whole thing makes no sense to me. But then again neither do most business practices.
From what Ive read online many games are pirated now due to other ridiculous measures that have been put into them. Keys that customers have to input that, once theyre put in become useless, which completely kills its replayability. I can speak for that from my own experience. I got
World Of Warcraft when I got my new computer. I played it and I didnt like it. I was more than willing to pass it off to a friend but the key is only one time usage. So now I have a $40 brick that frequently reminds me how much I hate that game. Many people resort to the Darknet to get versions that people have somehow found a way around and no longer need keys. I actually read this on an Amazon review for a game, computer games are getting worse and worse with DRM to make sure that the customer who bought it is the only one who plays it. Is that even necessary? If they did that kind of thing with PS3, Wii or 360 games thered be a huge outcry... and
Gamestop would go out of business. You know occasionally I consider giving
WoW another chance, especially after that new expansion but since I already used my key on another computer, itll never happen. And no, they arent getting another $40 out of me. Instead of actually putting a dent in piracy theyve encouraged it even more because many people who have actually paid for the game cant get it to work and instead go to the Darknet for a pirated version. Now whos fault is that?