PC Gamer Surveys Piracy
There's a lot of ways to gather information about a topic. Surveys allow a lot of responses quickly and easily, but they have many limitations. PC Gamer ran a survey for...
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The Content Industry Will Never Get It
We do not like straying from our usual topics into the music, movie, and console gaming industries although I will make an exception for this. It has a computer hardware angle, I…
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Frictional Games Doesn’t Have Too Much Friction over Piracy
Frictional Games, the developers behind the Penumbra and Amnesia franchises, commented on the two years since the release of The Dark Descent through their company blog. Frictional has finally released...
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This is why anti-piracy is not simple and intuitive…
The Pirate Bay has recently been blocked by a number of British ISPs but single-day traffic increased to the highest it has ever been. If there was a need for...
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Epic talks a storm of bullets. Piracy hurt the sequel?
Mike Capps of Epic Games, among many other developers and publishers, completely misses the point about piracy. No-one can control piracy, they can only control factors which influence it --...
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Ubisoft announces dropping DRM from Rayman Origins PC
Ubisoft has been known to aggravate their fan base on the PC. Several off-hand comments have been made which claim that most PC users of their titles do so without paying. Ubisoft…
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Gabe Newell gets Steamed up over piracy discussions
Ben Kuchera of Penny Arcade caught an interview with Valve Software’s managing director and co-founder, Gabe Newell. The topics were quite typical for a Gabe Newell interview and involve working...
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Control versus Revenue: Round 2 — Ubisoft
A couple of days ago I posted an editorial discussing videogame piracy and secondary sales. During the discussion I postulated that the primary issue with publishers is the logical leap...
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Intel and Eurogamer discuss videogame piracy: listen
Matt Ployhar of Intel recently wrote in their blog their thoughts about Eurogamer’s piracy and secondary sales editorial. Piracy and Secondary Sales are hot-button issues with publishers these days...
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Piracy costs the industry $59 Billlion, BSA reports
Piracy is a sore spot for the entire intellectual property production industry. The infinitely reproducible nature of information creates real challenges for collecting revenue particularly if taken from the mindset of a…
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