An addendum, I would be more likely to shell out for a product if that license included any future versions of that product. Also said, if I bought a product when it was new and they release a newer version, it feels less morally reprehensable to pirate the newer copy.

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If you are the first of your “group of contacts/friends” to get your hands on a latest release game, just because someone told you it was cool ( and you wouldn’t have bought it anyway. ) You may end up telling your friends how cool it is.

If you didn’t intend on buying it in the first place, you may have never found out how ‘cool’ it was, and therefore that’s you not telling anyone else, and potentially lost sales for the company.

This in no way justifies the act of Piracy, however, it just points out the industries aren’t going into decline because of piracy, it’s rather a natural equilibrium.

If you’re going to annoy consumers with high-tech anti-piracy technologies ( which never work ) at least put the price down on the game to compensate. ( which contradicts the fact that the technology costs the company more. )

There’s a point where you look at a price, and you say well I could get 5 other not-so-hyped-up games for the same price, and simply being so expensive drives you to pirate it.

Games should start out cheaper, and reduce in price less. ( So the game doesn’t just sell when it becomes cheap. )

Undoubtedly. Only filesharing isn’t theft because the author still has the original of whatever is being distributed via FS.

Try and sue me for somehow making an identical copy of your Ferrari (while you still have your car and I’ve never even touched it). I wish you luck. :-)