Ok. But there is no way to truly measure that until every piece of software "phone home" before you can play, but if they are "phone home" then might as well do a validity check of the software, but pirates are very good at cracking many DRM.
You have a pirate playing a game you make that is worth $50. They lost $50 until the pirate pays $50.
The company won't know exactly their monetary losses, but they are huge.
Exactly. To think otherwise is to assume that the game has no value until someone pays for it. It may be a variable value dependent on market factors and personal preference, but it still has value. Otherwise, the pirates wouldn't be bothering to pirate it.
It depends.
Stealing is an incorrect term used by companies to make it look worse than it already is It its piracy, and should you attempt to make money off the illegal copy or pass it off as your own, its IP Theft.
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Yee ha!Break into a song and dance number?
Sing Gilbert and Sullivan?
And when a baseball player steals he actually takes you money, :-P
Actually JCM you're wrong... only trying it to pass it off as your own is IP theft... trying to make money off it by selling copies or using the characters/stuff in your own work is still copy right infringement...they'd just get more damages awarded probably.
Fun fact about that, the whole clan heraldry tartan thing is not as ancient as you think... it's even sourced: Tartan, as we know it today, is not thought to have existed in Scotland before the 16th century. By the late 16th century there are numerous references to striped or checkered plaids. It is not until the late 17th or early 18th century that any kind uniformity in tartan is thought to have occurred.[20]
Yeah, and i'm sure any other product that threatened their monopoly over and industry was treated in the same way, and yet you wouldn't say that Pepsi was stealing Coca-Cola's money, would you?!
I'm pretty sure the Picts wouldn't have minded much if someone else used warpaint... but sure, 500 years might not be 100% correct...
And as long as people had money they also had capitalism?! You're looking at it in too broad a sense. Their ideas about it where very different from ours.
Forgot about that.
Since companies are calling copying/piracy = stealing, can I call fanfiction of copyrighted works raping (in the case of het/slash fanfiction, raping my childhood literally)?
I'm pretty sure things like Fan Fiction are covered under Fair Use or Parody.
Read also the bit on "Fair Use"
Parodies are protected, but actually using characters and other stuff isn't... companies just tend to allow it by not suing...
Actually piracy is more like a slang term... both those things in the middle are copyright infringement... it's more like assault and aggravated assault...
Or a library.
And that's why the best strategy against piracy is to make people understand that buying stuff helps make new stuff, rewards the devs etc., even if they buy it later when the prices are down etc.
Over here they're both called libraries...
That's similar to my thoughts when I was watching the video. It's important to not let "There's no harm in copying this" turn into "There's no benefit in paying for this." Not that I think the former will inevitably turn into the latter, but I have the sentiment of, paraphrased "I won't pay for media, and that it's up to creators to figure out how to monetize without ever charging the customer".
Personally, I can't really blame them. They're consumers that the market hasn't caught up with yet (They have the technology, but they haven't priced the market yet). Kind of like the pre-iTunes folks who just REALLY wanted cheap, song-by-song pricing.
I am not calling you out man, but I would love to hear this point explained in greater detail, I am not seeing how the two compare?
