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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you not think that it's true to say that the fact that so-called "piracy" enables people to get content for free only works because the majority of people do pay for what they consume? If nobody paid, there would be no works to pirate. Pirates are leeching from the honest purchasers.
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Again, it's quite irrelevant. What matters is
profit. Take games - they've barely dipped, and are doing a lot better than the recession in general. And the failure of specific games has been traced, again and again, to draconian DRM.
(AC2 sold miserably on the PC, and had a VERY high return rate...I know several major shops have told Ubisoft they will NOT be stocking any titles using that DRM system again, period!)
And for reference, of the RPG's I've worked on, some of my work is available for free download, one entire RPG is CC-licensed and you can copy the rules of my d20/OGL work...