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"Mommy i want to be a pirate."

That probably isn't all that a good a title for what this topic is about, or maybe it is. I would like to talk to you about video game piracy, it is illegal you know.

Anyway now for the first time in their history nintendo have deided to move away from the cartidge and onto a cd type thing known as an optical disk. Does this mean that they will fall victim to the computer fraud known as game copying. I know that the nintendo boss has said that he thinks the games will be safe and won't be able to be copied but people have away of getting around these things dont they.

Do you think that nintendo's optical disk will eventually be cracked by a pirate, so he can make as many copies of it as he wishes? It probably wont be as hard for the pirates to make copies of the optical disks as it was for them to make copies of the old nintendo cartidges. I feel that it was a risk nentendo were forced to make though cos now as the gaming world developes, more space is needed on the sofware to make bigger and better games.

Will criminals evetually find a way to copy the disks? If so nintendo will lose profits juat as the playstation did. Only time will tell if the optical disk really is as safe as nintendo make it out to be.

Thanx for reading, that is if you did read it.

From stick474 on Sunday the 22nd of July 2001.

please will people let me no if they are coming as the dj is sorted and need to book the food just add a replay with your name to this thread.

regards mike

Gaming Boy wrote:
> Mommy i want to be a pirate.

Mommy? What are you, American?!


Ha, I wouldn't mind being american. Anyway i have found out why the title has some meaning. I think that pirates are becoming so common that it is like been one is being part of a trade, an illegal one be it, but a trade all the same. Anyway it is like a young child going up to a mother and saying "Mommy i want to be a pirate". This could have two meanings one meaning momey i want to sail the seas fro adventure and the other meaning Mommy i want to take part in illegal operations to bring the gaming industry to it knees where it will lay before me begging me to stop what i'm doing. What a long sentance that last one was ehh.

Mommy i want to be a pirate.

Mommy? What are you, American?!

There are two types of pirates, a mon avis... the dedicated pirate, who probably spends thousands of pounds getting the required equipment needed to pirate the games developers spend so much effort on... and the mainstream pirate, which was founded recently in 1995 when the PS was released along with its CD format - all that is required is a quick copy from the use of a CD writer and a blank CD and ta-da - a free, pirated game. Of course, with Ninty releasing their GC games on the modified DVD format (for this is all it is), and the imminent release of cheap (ish) DVD writers, it won't be long before mainstream gamers will be able to copy GC DVDs. But of course, they'll need a PC first, woith the right specifications.

Piraters will no doubt crack the protection on the GameCube...probably within a week of launch. However the fact that the GameCube is so small means it would be hard to alter physically without damaging..unless your an expert.
The size and format of the discs also means that it will be more profitable to pirate Xbox or PS2 games.

At the end of the day the GameCube will be pretty safe from pirates...thats just an opinion though.

Hopefully this will save Nintendo money meaning they can make there games cheaper.

I know.

Have you seen the blink topic, it nearly has 300 replies.

Stick474 wrote:

The same thing happened to me the other day
> when i listened to it. :)

Very addictive song that!

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Stick474 wrote:
Could it
> be TV from cheshire cat?

It could
> indeed, I've got the bloody stuck in my had now!

I need my TV....
> la la la la la la la la la la la la...


The same thing happened to me the other day when i listened to it. :)

Stick474 wrote:
Could it
> be TV from cheshire cat?

It could indeed, I've got the bloody stuck in my had now!

I need my TV.... la la la la la la la la la la la la...