The_Oracle said:
Well, look at it from the company's perspective. They spent thousands and thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours in development time to create the Nintendo DS and its associated games, and if someone was running a website that lets people get all of that stuff for free, and I was the company, I'd be rather miffed too.
If you charge a fair price for your products people will buy them.
How do you know when a price is fair? Is your product selling? If it is then it is a fair price.
It is a form of logic that has been used in capitalist situations for hundreds and hundreds of years, if not thousands.
Just lately people think items are worth what they say they are worth. That has never and will never truly be the case.
danosaurus said:
WrongSprite said:
They did the right thing here by striking at the source of piracy instead of the average pirate.
Agreed, it's the correct approach to the problem.
For every one site you attack you will create two more. People just get more creative and make it harder to find the next set of sites.
The real way of fixing this is by doing what I mentioned to the previous poster. Some of the worlds richest people in history (non royalty) have followed the above system.
Carnegie and Ford are two quick examples. Both believed and "supposedly" followed the system and they each had more money than God (Who actually works on a low budget).
Great example, Arkham Asylum, first game I've bought in 5 years that was worth the tag price. Didn't even look to pirate it, because the moment I sunk my teeth in I was hooked on it like a dope fiend on...well...dope.
