the sad fact is that human beings are unscrupulous, and if we're given the opportunity to get something for free instead of paying for it, if the work required isn't back-breaking, people are going to take that opportunity.Įven if developers came up with some insane ultra-strong non-invasive copy protection, there would still be people out there working to beat it and once they did, the floodgates would be open once more. As Newell said, Valve concentrates on serving their paying customers.īut people bootleg tapes and record films in theatres and have been doing this stuff since the 70s at the least. The problem is, most of the industry wants things to remain EXACTLY the way its been all along. Valve has shown that there IS a profit to be made but they had to completely re-think their business model to get to where they are.

I think most people do agree that creators should be paid but thats something the marketplace decides. The latter either had to come up with new ideas they could apply their skills to or they went tits-up. The current change going on is equal in impact as the automobile was on the horse & carriage industry. You can't make something that's infinitely reproducible, scarce. Every part of the entertainment industry needs to figure out a NEW way to monetize their products. The cold hard fact is that distribution is essentially free. At some point arguing over morality is a waste of time. People who do it KNOW its wrong but that doesn't stop them. I think part of the issue is that the entertainment industry as a whole has spent far too much time trying to guilt folks into paying for their products. Surprisingly, Kinect Sports: Season Two also ranked highly on the list with 690K downloads-proving that piracy can be a family-friendly affair as well. Gears of War 3 was the most illegally downloaded Xbox 360 game of 2011, and it was torrented about 890K times. Of course, consoles aren't exactly secure platforms either. The rampant piracy on the platform led the developer to pursue a multi-platform approach with Crysis 2, with claims that consoles provide better anti-piracy measures. Developer Crytek claimed that for every purchased copy of Crysis, there were 20 copies downloaded. Piracy plagued the original Crysis, and it appears the sequel has suffered the same fate. EA and its Partners games round out the rest of the top 5 with games like Battlefield 3, FIFA 12, and Portal 2. The PC version of the game was torrented about 3.92 million times, besting Modern Warfare 3's 3.65 million downloads. Crysis 2 has won the 'honor' of being the most pirated game of 2011. EA has finished 2011 dethroning Activision's Call of Duty series.

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