They discuss how to solve the problem of piracy as well as the thought process both the consumer and industry have on piracy, they approach it showing how Piracy is both a tool for good and evil, how sometimes having an excuse to justify your actions is already too much of an excuse.
To Industry
"It's a hot button issue for everyone, no matter which side of the debate you fall on."
"It's impossible to have this conversation without getting, ETHICS and MORALITY, involved."
"The extent to which Piracy hurts game sales, maybe debatable, but there's no question that Piracy has a considerable impact on this industry."
"Game Stop's closed? Your local torrent service isn't"
"Free of charge is already a pretty hard offer to compete with, so? why give them more of an advantage by insuring they give a better service too."
To Consumers
"It's easy to feel accused when these discussion come up, even when you aren't guilty of piracy yourself, it's easy to feel like someones pointing a finger at you."
"There is only one legitimated reason to pirate a game, when you literally can not buy the game"
"But in the end, if we are still pirating the game to play it, these render all of those arguments meaningless because the game is still worth playing despite the flaws."
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Extra Credits - SOPA/PIPA
Sopa's acts while understandable cut off from too much freedom of the internet, or to better state, they give too much power to the entertainment industry, powers that would allow them to dodge and imprison American citizens. The Bill would also allow them to bring down websites if users uploaded content that wasn't there's, thus enforcing a dictator like approach on all websites and what users can and can't not submit in terms of content.
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CISPA Monitoring Bill: Just the Facts
The CISPA bill is designed to help business and governments against cyber attacking, such as hackers and other threats, but some people worry that the freedom given to these people is too much and that CISPA could just be another PIPA or SOPA waiting to happen? Is this the case, as we are unable to tell if companies will branch out and abuse this new found power.
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10 ways to fun ways to stop video game piracy
Some video games are taking a unique way to prevent piracy by coding vidoes games so that, when pirated the game will alter is play function, such as making the game hazards or impossible for the player to play or complete, or a general annoyance.
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The Truth about PC game Piracy
"Certainly there have been big figures thrown about in the media, but they haven't been very specific and don't take many important factors into consideration."
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Hey, Listen! Video Game Piracy is Stupid
Piracy is still piracy no matter how you label it.
This article was very opinionated and backed up with weak research, such as claiming that Diablo 3's Error 37 was DRM.
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Video game developers say that piracy really isn't that big a threatResearch shows that despite media claims, majority of video game developers aren't actually bothered by pirates, or think that DRM is a good solution to the problem.
"a study of video game developers had only 10% saying that piracy was a threat to their business."
"50% are adapting to the marketplace, saying that "piracy" will change the way they do business"
"50% called it irrelevant with another 20% describing DRM as a part of the problem."
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Game Piracy - Separating fact from fiction
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