41% of all PC software is pirated : (

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piracy will drop when software developers stop charging ridiculously high prices for their programs. Lets face it, the software developers are the ones robbing US by charging so much and making billions of dollars in profit. The way I see it people have the right to pirate from adobe and microsoft. Even though I say this all the games I have are originals

subrosian

In case you guys didnt notice. "41% of all PC software is pirated : (" So stop jumping on the "PC gaming is dying thanks to piracy" bandwagon.

clyde46

you do know some download games and then buy them? yeah there are id say maybe 10-15%

41% seems ridiculously high... i doubt it is that much. Did they account for the free software? that is the only way i see it being 41%....SF_KiLLaMaN

Software companies aren't that threatened by piracy because of huge profits thanks to enterprise users. Game companies, on the other hand can't rely on business folks.

I think in my opinion piracy helps the industries of entertainment like for example some just download stuff like music or a pc game just to try it out before actually buying it...theres alot of stuff out there that aren't even worth the full price of money especially music what's wrong with that? i see no problem with that just as long as you like it buy it then delete whatever it is you have same goes if you didn't like it, it has it's ups and downs. But then theres the ones that just download and not give a flyin hoot about the makers of these items, that's what kills business and unique items.

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[QUOTE="VideoGameGuy"]How so? cause i pay for everything i own, cause i think people who make copies of software are stealing? I don't care what method is used, if you have a copy of something that you have to rightfully pay for normally, it's stealing and should be treated as such. VideoGameGuy

piracy will drop when software developers stop charging ridiculously high prices for their programs. Lets face it, the software developers are the ones robbing US by charging so much and making billions of dollars in profit. The way I see it people have the right to pirate from adobe and microsoft. Even though I say this all the games I have are originals

Ultimately one of two things will happen to PC gaming. Either we will see implementation of even more difficult DRM and anti-piracy methods being implemented. Or development will move to the consoles which are more secure... or, now that I think about it, PC gaming could become the realm of bad games that are too bad to be put onto consoles.

Ultimately one of two things will happen to PC gaming. Either we will see implementation of even more difficult DRM and anti-piracy methods being implemented. Or development will move to the consoles which are more secure... or, now that I think about it, PC gaming could become the realm of bad games that are too bad to be put onto consoles.

dinb

Piracy is inevitable, especially in developing to undeveloped countries. Majority would go for the pirated ones over the original ones especially if they are not power users (like a teenager belonging to a developing/undeveloped country who wants to use photoshop but since he isn't a power user, he would rather get the pirated one.)

I can see that piracy can help the PC hardware much but not so much on the Software developers.

Piracy is a double edged sword.

Oh and regarding games. Yes, the majority would rather buy a pirated game in a developing/undeveloped country since most are casual gamers and the gaming hobby is expensive. Same goes for Wii and 360. That's why you guys noticed that PS3 is the lowest of all the new gen systems, including handhelds, they're all piratable. ;)

pirating photoshop = pirating games? imprezawrx500