Star wars thievery
MonsieurEvil
Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
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350,000 more criminals in the world.
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I guess what I'm saying is, I have very little sympathy for Lucas and his problems with piracy.
As far as I see it, although piracy is a big problem, (I will admit to doing it although I don't do it now I buy my games!) The music industry are realing from it over here what with mp3s and stuff. However there doesn't seem a way of stopping it apart from finding the perpitrators or developing ways around it
(our music industry want intel to put componants onto their equipment to stop people using pirate material) Gamecube have a good idea in that they avoind piracy by having special real small disks instead of normal ones good idea IMO
Just a few thoughts
As long as you have music file formats you will have piracy, the only way to reduce it is to reduce demand by getting in into people's skulls that it is a bad thing, like say, mudering people is bad, or mugging or theiving is bad.
Simply reducing the demand for file sharing would lead to it's demise, it's a self-killing thing, as less people are into it, the less stuff on offer and the harder it is to do, so more people will stop.
There will always be the "hardcore" warez community as there has been since the internet started, but that's not really a problem, more the problem as I see it is simply people's attitudes towards warez, that it's not a bad thing, or it's their "right", or that they buy it anyway so it's alright.
If I dislike a downloaded game, it gets promptly deleted from my computer. If I like it enough, I'll buy it. Simple as that.
The guy deserves what he gets, Lucasfilms can stand the hit, and "previewing" it before ya buy the thing only works (morally) if you have never seen or bought anything from that company before so you have no way to judge the quality.
Oh, and I didn't write a 7 page post.
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Or, he may just release both editions, under the title "Classic" and "Special Edition." Make the true fans pay for three DVDs (maybe even four, if they have enough bonus material) TWICE!
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