I read on Digg's Gaming News section that's related to that new wonder called "piracy".
tgdaily.com — Crytek's CEO gave an interview where he stated that Crytek can no longer afford to be PC exclusive. Crysis and UT3 reported similar levels of piracy - according to Mark Rein, Epic experienced 40 million registration attempts with illegal UT3 keys. Its easy to see that those two companies lost more revenue than AMD or Nvidia's achieve in a quarter.First off, it is kind of bad that piracy/file sharing/torrents actually caused a company suffer a loss that bad. The problem, to me, is that digital bootlegging is around due to some many things costing so much and might be, something we later on find out, crap to have. Don't take what I say as me speaking for every user of file sharing. Everyone knows that if given the choice to pay the high price for Photoshop or to download a working cracked version or a serial keygen, you'll say "pay" but your action will be "download it".
Let me ask this: you know the games you can play from Yahoo, Big Fish Games and Reflexive Arcade? So, who would pay 20 bucks a game for games that you might get bored of before a full week will pass? Who wants to pay hundreds of dollars for editing software that you'll only use for personal small projects?
I said this many times but, file sharing is no diffrent than someone buying the serial and sharing it with you. It's like saying the government will arrest you for borrowing eggs from your neighbors or your parent's car.
So, what's the real answer to file sharing? The answer is: leave it alone.
Don't try to punish people for getting their programs, games, music, ect. the way they want to.
I could go on about this but, LOST will be on in like an hour. Plus, I didn't really want to dwell on this topic too long.
