[b65e8bee43c2ed0]

>they sound great in theory, but in practice exactly one person will buy the game that cost millions to produce, put it up on a website for free, and then the studio will say "well, never doing that again".

fyi, there are tens of torrent trackers with every game/movie/album/etc under the sun. had been for two decades.

[john_strinlai]

i was unaware torrenting copyrighted content was made legal, thanks for the update

[sapphicsnail]

I think their point was that lots of media is easily piratable but still makes money and companies continue to produce more of it.

[trinsic2]

Yep another lost soul at the parent that thinks piracy equals death.

[john_strinlai]

that is not what i think.

[b65e8bee43c2ed0]

>they sound great in theory, but in practice exactly one person will buy the game that cost millions to produce, put it up on a website for free, and then the studio will say "well, never doing that again".

[john_strinlai]

yes, i wrote that.

right now that would be illegal to do in most jurisdictions.

[b65e8bee43c2ed0]

despite that, people have been doing that for over two decades, but publishers continue to publish.

[john_strinlai]

right. that is because most people would rather buy the game than take the risk of downloading it illegally. if you remove the risk, the math changes.

publishers also have legal recourse. remove that and the publisher's math changes.

[b65e8bee43c2ed0]

people pay for convenience. when was the last time you heard about someone being prosecuted for pirating something?