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Piracy?
We all know it exists, and most if not all of us will have bought/seen or read about piracy in some form.
But just how serious a problem is it. I remember back in the day of the Commadore amiga you could borrow games of a friend and copy them onto a disk without any trouble at all. Then when the playstation came out at first there was no problems with piracy, but it didn't last long. Im sure you all know about the pen and blue-tac trick toallow you to change the disks at the logo. Then the chip was developed and people where getting there playstations chipped to allow them to play import games and also "pirate copies". Sony tried to prevent this by writting code on to the games but this code could be overwritten by adding patches to the disk when copying them. The N64 was "succesful" against piracy coz the cartridge that the game comes on is "pirate proof" and would cost alot to copy. It seems that all CD based machines are more at risk and with most future consoles comming out is the problem going to get worse? Now the PS2 is here and at the moment sony looks like its prevented the problem with piracy. You can have your PS2 chipped to play copies for your PS1 or multi region DVD's but nothing to allow you to play copies of PS2 games that are DVD based. But I think it's only a matter of time before some clever chap designs a way round this and starts the problem with piracy for sony all over again.
But is Piracy a big problem for Sony and others like microsoft/nintendo/sega? It costs them millions each year. Some people refuse to buy pirate copies (they say they don't play like the real thing, stop working after a while) but in truth they are an exact copy of the original so how can they be different? I guess it all comes down to the person, do you buy a pirate copy to save a pretty penny and break the law( doubt anyone will catch you though) or buy official games and remain loyal to the company and watch others buy a new game everyweek for £5 while you have to wait and save up for weeks to get 1. Its your choice, but piracy will always happen. It seems to be everywhere, just a part of everyday life.
Whether is to do with games or even music (whether its downloading it or copying a mates CD), and don't forget the PC ( Why pay £300 for software when you can get it for a tenner?) its always going to be there and there isn't really anyway of stopping it. Unless people admit that its wrong and we all stop doing it but i doubt that will happen.
Anyone else got their views on this?
We all know it exists, and most if not all of us will have bought/seen or read about piracy in some form.
But just how serious a problem is it. I remember back in the day of the Commadore amiga you could borrow games of a friend and copy them onto a disk without any trouble at all. Then when the playstation came out at first there was no problems with piracy, but it didn't last long. Im sure you all know about the pen and blue-tac trick toallow you to change the disks at the logo. Then the chip was developed and people where getting there playstations chipped to allow them to play import games and also "pirate copies". Sony tried to prevent this by writting code on to the games but this code could be overwritten by adding patches to the disk when copying them. The N64 was "succesful" against piracy coz the cartridge that the game comes on is "pirate proof" and would cost alot to copy. It seems that all CD based machines are more at risk and with most future consoles comming out is the problem going to get worse? Now the PS2 is here and at the moment sony looks like its prevented the problem with piracy. You can have your PS2 chipped to play copies for your PS1 or multi region DVD's but nothing to allow you to play copies of PS2 games that are DVD based. But I think it's only a matter of time before some clever chap designs a way round this and starts the problem with piracy for sony all over again.
But is Piracy a big problem for Sony and others like microsoft/nintendo/sega? It costs them millions each year. Some people refuse to buy pirate copies (they say they don't play like the real thing, stop working after a while) but in truth they are an exact copy of the original so how can they be different? I guess it all comes down to the person, do you buy a pirate copy to save a pretty penny and break the law( doubt anyone will catch you though) or buy official games and remain loyal to the company and watch others buy a new game everyweek for £5 while you have to wait and save up for weeks to get 1. Its your choice, but piracy will always happen. It seems to be everywhere, just a part of everyday life.
Whether is to do with games or even music (whether its downloading it or copying a mates CD), and don't forget the PC ( Why pay £300 for software when you can get it for a tenner?) its always going to be there and there isn't really anyway of stopping it. Unless people admit that its wrong and we all stop doing it but i doubt that will happen.
Anyone else got their views on this?
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Aliboy wrote:
> Just a few quick questions.
1.Do you think if there was no
> piracy the price of games would come down?
No Way!
2.Does piracy hurt
> anyone else other than thoose "Rich" people who make the
> games?
No Way!
3.Should more be done to stop this?
No Way!
Shaneo - Cheapskate.
> Just a few quick questions.
1.Do you think if there was no
> piracy the price of games would come down?
No Way!
2.Does piracy hurt
> anyone else other than thoose "Rich" people who make the
> games?
No Way!
3.Should more be done to stop this?
No Way!
Shaneo - Cheapskate.
Just a few quick questions.
1.Do you think if there was no piracy the price of games would come down?
2.Does piracy hurt anyone else other than thoose "Rich" people who make the games?
3.Should more be done to stop this?
1.Do you think if there was no piracy the price of games would come down?
2.Does piracy hurt anyone else other than thoose "Rich" people who make the games?
3.Should more be done to stop this?
Piracy is a huge issue with comapany's. Yeah i remember X-copy on the Amiga and that was the easiest way of all to copy games, you could do it on any Amiga.
To copy PS1 games you have to get your console chipped and have a CD-writer and a orginal copy of the game.
Since there is only one type of DVD writer out there (that i know of) which is fairly pricey I think Pirating these disks is very hard at the moment but so were CD's in 1995.
Piracy is everywhere here but I don't have anything to do with it.
To copy PS1 games you have to get your console chipped and have a CD-writer and a orginal copy of the game.
Since there is only one type of DVD writer out there (that i know of) which is fairly pricey I think Pirating these disks is very hard at the moment but so were CD's in 1995.
Piracy is everywhere here but I don't have anything to do with it.
Seriously, it is a serious problem and if there was an easy answer to stopping it then it have been done!!
Aye, those sea urchins are after my pieces o' eight, but i'm not letting them go so nah nah na na na!!
*Ouch, floored by a punch to the jaw*
*Ouch, floored by a punch to the jaw*
I don't enjoy piracy but unwittingly most people are a part of it.
But with any software based system, there are holes!!
MAybe I'm missing Elite with something else... it was in one of EDGE's "The making of..." column... anyone remember
As for the fifa thing... granted they update players... but do they have say online tournaments where you can win prizes, or fantasy football competitions that you can only enter with the genuine copy of the game?
Sonic
As for the fifa thing... granted they update players... but do they have say online tournaments where you can win prizes, or fantasy football competitions that you can only enter with the genuine copy of the game?
Sonic
SonicRav wrote:
> I've been saying for a long time that you should get more than a
> collection of 0s and 1s when you buy a game.
Isnt that like saying that when you buy a book you should get more than a collection of words???
Instead, how about having free
> updates of players, managers and new tournaments that you can get
> from the web.
They do this already... Although a lot of people complain that if they can make these extras now... why couldnt they have made them in the full product?!?
It worked for Elite where
> you needed an original game to compete with other people
I dont remeber Elite being a multiplayer game?
> I've been saying for a long time that you should get more than a
> collection of 0s and 1s when you buy a game.
Isnt that like saying that when you buy a book you should get more than a collection of words???
Instead, how about having free
> updates of players, managers and new tournaments that you can get
> from the web.
They do this already... Although a lot of people complain that if they can make these extras now... why couldnt they have made them in the full product?!?
It worked for Elite where
> you needed an original game to compete with other people
I dont remeber Elite being a multiplayer game?
I've been saying for a long time that you should get more than a collection of 0s and 1s when you buy a game. If you were to buy a Fifa game for example, all you get now is a collection of os and 1s... and that's all. So people copy them because they get nothing extra from buying the original.
Instead, how about having free updates of players, managers and new tournaments that you can get from the web. This could only be done if you register on the web with a unique ID number... if 2 people try the same ID then that code is void (because one of them is using a copy!). Also, how about something like online competitions... making the game infinitely more than just a lump of 1s and 0s...
It worked for Elite where you needed an original game to compete with other people
Sonic
Instead, how about having free updates of players, managers and new tournaments that you can get from the web. This could only be done if you register on the web with a unique ID number... if 2 people try the same ID then that code is void (because one of them is using a copy!). Also, how about something like online competitions... making the game infinitely more than just a lump of 1s and 0s...
It worked for Elite where you needed an original game to compete with other people
Sonic
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