Comments on: Governments need to stop game piracy

By: Mark Buchholz

Mark Buchholz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:24:24 +0000

The problem of piracy is terrible and a huge problem for our young industry. I believe that we don’t have a chance to stop this without destroying the overall experience and value the Internet provides.

We (and more and more other studios do) reacted by changing the business model the way that piracy becomes almost impossible. The Games Industry must stop seeing their game clients as their products but their server side services. The Internet is the best tool for stealing, but it’s also the best tool to stop stealing.

By: woodins

woodins — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:21:16 +0000

Cool, go after Bittorent all you like, its just gonna push people to get encrytpted usenet accounts . . . . . .Then the fun really begins . . . . .

By: BC

BC — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:05:45 +0000

I’m not sure that it goes into much detail on how ISPs should go about cutting down piracy by this amount or how they are going to be funded. I’m betting they just punish high traffic no matter what the source just to hit their figures.

Was there not something else in the report saying that the number of poor people that will gain the free internet will most likely to be the ones using it for piracy? Exactly how much would they be spending on media without it?

At least if everyone had access to pirated downloads, no one would be making any money from piracy down the stalls.