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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
For PC games it's (copyright) already effectively non-existent. The games are up on torrent networks before their street dates (or at "worse" at the same time as the street date).
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Free bootleg versions don't make copyright non-existent.
The original publishers competitors can't sell them. For that matter, the bootleggers can't (effectively) sell them. Competitors can't grab a video game, copy the code, replace the characters with Popular Cartoon Of The Week, and release it under their own label.
The #1 purpose of copyright is to protect from *corporate*, not individual, poaching. Unless we figure out a way to do that with some other legal method, we need copyrights.