Singapore's Game Pirates Are Wary of Investigators
Singapore's Game Pirates Are Wary of Investigators
June 20, 2008
Attention from investigators has driven video game pirates away from Singapore's town center, according to the Electric New Paper:
[Some] shops appeared more suspicious of potential buyers. To convince them, you'll have to strike up a conversation - or even buy a few original games - before they'll show you the pirated ones. Only one of the four shops... that we visited was willing to let us examine the cart before we bought them. Others insisted that we buy them.
The ESA, which represents the interests of video game publishers in the United States, maintains a presence in Singapore. From the report:
Mr Cyril Chua, counsel for the [ESA], said that checking on shops in heartland estates is more difficult than investigating stores in central locations.
'They often sell pirated wares only to regular customers,' he said.
Another problem is that pirated games can now be downloaded from the Internet, then installed on ame consoles by the users themselves.
'Piracy over the Internet is more difficult to track than retail piracy,' Mr Chua noted.
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Its simple you don't track it its not "piracy", since there is not a profit motive it can not harm you, Bootlegs remove money from consumers and publishers but "shearing" dose not, you can not protect business from "under profits"(trading,2nd hand,sharing) and bad business practices(DRM,bad games,anti consumer activities,)...
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Tell that to company leads who buy into SecuRom/StarForce salesman bullsh.. that claims online piracy cuts profits at least 50%.
The far majority of people who pirate the game online are highly unlikely to have bought the game if it weren't pirated in the first place.
And the damage done by SecuRom, StarForce and other hack "antipiracy" methods more than alienates a good portion of LEGIT buyers.
Bootlegs, however, I can agree on.
They would rather spend more money to sale less products, then save money on the product and offer ti at a lower price to sale higher volume to make a steady ammount.
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Totally agree on the SecuROM crap. I ended up renting Bioshock on the 360 instead of buying it on the PC because of it. And I was looking forward to Spore, but after hearing that they're considering an even harsher protection than Bioshock has, I'm probably going to have to pass. The protection is not effective, obviously, and it pisses me off that companies are making changes to my system that cannot be undone for no reason whatsoever. I refuse to buy a game when those who pirate it have a better experience than I do.
Yeah, but do they wear eyepatches, swing swords and go "Arr!"?
'Cause that'd be cool.
Where can I get an ame console???
People actually BUY pirated things?
Get on the torrent bandwagon if you're in the market for illegal programs, all the cool kids are doing it. Purchasing pirated videos, games or whatnot is such a 90's thing.
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Yes.
Just go down to any low-quality shopping center in the Philippines.
I'm pretty surprised that there actually are people that buy pirates, everyone these days are either using torrents or some rom sites to download free games, I have to agree that pirating cutting profits by 50% is pretty bogus although it does hurt the industry, you be amazed by how many people torrent video games
I'll will come right out and say it. I download games off the net. If the min specs weren't a complet lie most of the time I wouldn't have to. I can't play Mass Effect because my vid card doesn't support Pixel Shading 3.0. I had to find that out from the fourms. Nowhere on the box, website, or anything does it mention this. Because they put out a demo for Bioshock I didn't buy an overpriced drink coaster.
However I also have never bought an bootleg copy of anything.