Comments on: Indie Game Dev Embraces Pirates Instead Of Fighting Futile War

By: Slowing Software Piracy would Create 500,000 Jobs

Slowing Software Piracy would Create 500,000 Jobs — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:20:09 +0000

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By: affenkopf

affenkopf — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:37:22 +0000

@45: If drugs were legal there would be nor cartels.

By: momoola

momoola — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:29:30 +0000

@32

How exactly are pirates hurting anything when they don’t actually take anything? You can’t take potential profit, or *everyone* would be guilty of doing so. You’ve ‘taken’ potential profit by merely not buying a product!

When an author suffers, it is the fault of this illogical capitalistic society, and not piracy.

By: MM

MM — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:55:51 +0000

The exposure that the limitless crowds the internet has to offer can in fact be good for artist/content creators alike is total news to me, o wait even snoop dogg realized in the 90s that when people are not downloading your content then you have a problem…

By: Jeroenz0r

Jeroenz0r — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:34:06 +0000

‘But what if that person likes that game, talks about it to his or her friend’

A friend of mine bought it so I looked it up. It was really fun. :)

By: Whatever

Whatever — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:02:25 +0000

Sorry correction…
Level saving as a PAID feature ?
(maybe its not what i think it is)

By: Whatever

Whatever — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:01:37 +0000

Level saving as a feature ?
(maybe its not what i think it is)

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:15:45 +0000

I think you need to correct who you are linking to on Youtube. I don’t know if anyone above mentioned this, but JX23 was hardly the first person to do Minecraft commentary.

I think it is http://www.youtube.com/davidr64yt

And he gained a substantial amount of subscribers from it.

If you check the dates of the first Minecraft videos on his channel in contrast to JX23′s, they are 18 days apart, and about 180,000 views apart as well.

I’m sure other people did Minecraft videos before davidr64yt, but he was one of the first (if not the first) to do commentary on it and he made it the popular Let’s Play game of Youtube.

Anyway, thanks. I just want the right man to get credit for starting the craze.

By: Listen to yourselves

Listen to yourselves — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:08:57 +0000

Infiniminer:

1) Release code for free
2) Don’t viral market
3) Allow people to play the full version for free
4) Nice developers

Minecraft:
“Hey guys, let’s steal all the code from infiniminer which was released for free, and charge people for it!”

1) Disgusting viral marketing on 4chan, SA, Gamefaqs and many other sites.
2) Same 3 viral marketing scumbags spamming threads.
3) Tards spamming “buy buy buy” every thread (same people).
4. Douchebag dev.

By: Don’t Think of It As Piracy, Think of It As Marketing | AniChaos.com

Don’t Think of It As Piracy, Think of It As Marketing | AniChaos.com — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:07:22 +0000

[...] pointed out by the file-sharing news site Torrent Freak, the game Persson is talking about has already racked up considerable sales numbers, despite the fact that it is widely available on file-sharing sites. [...]