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[quote]Consoles on the other hand, with thier online iterations, are controlled to the extreme. Thus, far less piracy.[/quote] Hmm I disagree. Just about everyone I know has pirated copies of xbox 360 games it's really just as bad. Wherever you have a digital medium and the ability for people to access that medium then you are going to have people pirating. Here is a list of consoles that I have had & the equivelent hardware/chip addons to ass

Reply to The Pirate Bay founders sentenced to prison in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="Stanley Tarrant" reply="22" id="2155867"]bingo. This is how you fight piracy. You blow the individuals out of the water, but you don't punish everyone with DRM. Instead of wasting money on DRM, companies should hire hackers to find these pirates and punish them severely. Punish the individual scum but not the innocent.[/quote] Dude!! Never works & way too costly. In my opinion you have

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="3" id="2153580"] This is what I call a piracy apologist. There is no way to compete against free, and only a complete moron would expect actual productive people to try to compete against pirated versions. If someone does try to compete - say by adding multiplayer not available to pirated copies - the pirate apologists STILL bitch about the "unreasonably restrictive DRM". Such people will never be satisfied. It's like negotiating with terrorists; there's

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[quote]Strictly speaking, your "everyone" should be more like "many (or most) folks,"[/quote] Hmmm no. I did mean everyone. When was the last time you or anyone you know wanted to borrow a book/game/movie and the person you were asking said "no I cant lend you that because that would infringe on the creators copyright". Please give me a break it doesnt happen. Now don't get me wrong these guys that ran The Pirate Bay

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Last time I heard SHARING was not an illegal practice & everyone ( I DO MEAN EVERYONE ) has at 1 point in time or another shared a DVD/CD/CASETTE/GAME with someone. Does that mean we are all guilty of copyright infringment?