What's your ridiculous method for preventing piracy?

Who cares if it will destroy the market or be horribly infeasible.

So my infeasible idea would be infinite amounts of hardware accesorries, because last time I check, pirates can't pirate hardware. It would make everything overpriced and complicated, but hey, no more pirates.

Nuclear holocaust.

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are we talking consoles or PC

cause consoles could do it rather easily, just put some code on the disk thats unburnable and says the disk is genuine

make the game free

Nuclear holocaust.

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GIJames248

Took my one :(

Piracy is going to be dead once the new plans by ISPs go through. They plan on monitoring bandwidth and charging you for going over. Its like pay to download by byte *shudders*Vandalvideo

And you do know that people can now check your entire internet history without a warrent now, do you?

New internation treaty ACTA.

Guard the software with Cyber Ninjas.DireOwl

Nah Cyper Pirates>Cyber Ninjas

Actually remember those PC games that came with pages of random characters and sentences?

Then at some point the game goes: "Enter the 3rd letter on page 3 of the manual".

That was pretty annoying...

Piracy is going to be dead once the new plans by ISPs go through. They plan on monitoring bandwidth and charging you for going over. Its like pay to download by byte *shudders*Vandalvideo

Lol? in my country they are monitoring bandwidth for ageeees

I,for example have only 9 GB of bandwith. If i go over - i pay more

So its like for each 1 GB i "go over" i pay for like 5-10 $

Thats one of reasons i cant download big games but anyway it still dont stop piracy.

In my country pirated games are almost legal to buy lol

In my country pirated games are almost legal to buy lolLidve

Piracy is going to be dead once the new plans by ISPs go through. They plan on monitoring bandwidth and charging you for going over. Its like pay to download by byte *shudders*Vandalvideo

That would inconvenience people who download games legally via Steam or D2D though.

Only make games for PS3.mr_mozilla

Its just mather of time http://www.ps3news.com/forums/site-news/breaking-news-world-exclusive-ps3-news-39617.html

Actually remember those PC games that came with pages of random characters and sentences?

Then at some point the game goes: "Enter the 3rd letter on page 3 of the manual".

That was pretty annoying...

locopatho

I remember, the dreaded copy protection, I think I still have my KQ6 booklet somewhere.

Add download codes to all games, like on COD4 GOTY

Make it so If you want to play online you need to download all the settings and maps through the devs official website., that would help.

If you buy the game you get more money back then you payed for it so pirtating is more expensive.soiheardyoulike

I dont understand

Pirate buy original

pirate crack original

pirate upload cracked original

people and other pirates download it

people play it other pirates try to sell it for cheaper price to people who dont have bandwith or have slow connection

[QUOTE="Vandalvideo"]Piracy is going to be dead once the new plans by ISPs go through. They plan on monitoring bandwidth and charging you for going over. Its like pay to download by byte *shudders*splinter-OP

That would inconvenience people who download games legally via Steam or D2D though.

also im sure that pirates will just download the data at diffrent intervals at different locations

Add download codes to all games, like on COD4 GOTY

Make it so If you want to play online you need to download all the settings and maps through the devs official website., that would help.

Xbox360_4_Me

But map is like chunk of data.

So you have lets say XXX YYY ZZZ

you download it from devs site = XXX YYY ZZZ

Now you have downloaded map and you upload it to RAPIDSHARE

Its still same map so its still same code ( XXX YYY ZZZ)

How can you say where did you download it? There is no way of recognising XXX YYY ZZZ to XXX YYY ZZZ

piracy will never die....

the patriots...

Got a better more realistic idea. Games can't be bought any more, only rented through DD, everyone who owns the console pays a set fee a month, even if they don't download any games at all (but you can pause your account in case you go on holiday or something), you simply choose the game, download it, then delete the game, the system knows you deleted it and lets you download another, you can have 5 games at a time. You could technically keep one forever but you'd only have 4 spaces then.

I think if you did that and made it so each game could only be played on that particular console once DL-ed then you wouldn't be able to get it. Plus if they could make the price for renting fair there'd be no reason to pirate at all, you can play as many games as you like and you only pay a fair price.

Free ad-supported games.

Developers and publishers make more money than they would otherwise, and advertisers pay chump change to get their products into the minds of millions of gamers with wallets now filled with money from not having to pay for games.

Everybody's happy.

[QUOTE="DireOwl"]Guard the software with Cyber Ninjas.splinter-OP

Nah Cyper Pirates>Cyber Ninjas

What if the Cyber Ninjas were also half Cyber Bear?

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[QUOTE="DireOwl"]Guard the software with Cyber Ninjas.DireOwl

Nah Cyper Pirates>Cyber Ninjas

What if the Cyber Ninjas were also half Cyber Bear?

[QUOTE="Vandalvideo"]Piracy is going to be dead once the new plans by ISPs go through. They plan on monitoring bandwidth and charging you for going over. Its like pay to download by byte *shudders*waffle57

And you do know that people can now check your entire internet history without a warrent now, do you?

New internation treaty ACTA.

Remember kids everyones guilty until proven otherwise.Hoobinator

What about babies? And hamsters. Unless the hamsters have bread with pirates and formed some sort of mutant Piramster! DEAR GOD THEY'LL KILL US ALL!!!!

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break the internet. shut it down. turn off all servers, destroy all network and internet equipment and wipe every website off every hard drive. make it illegal to have network equipment in homes and businesses and have jail time punishments for breaking it.

ban all disc writing hardware and software from the world also. again jail time if u have it.

next, catch all pirates and cut off their hands. they did it in the old days to thieves...why should it change now? also u cant play a game or use a computer if u lack hands :P.

next introduce protection on games that require u too phone the publisher every time u want to play the game. a new code would be required every time u start the game. calls would be $10 per min.

finally all software purchases must be made in front of a police man and a document must eb signed by both u and said law enforcer. courts will randomly pick ppl to turn up in court and prodice said document. failure to do so will incurr hefty fines...and u loose ure hands.

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[QUOTE="DireOwl"]Guard the software with Cyber Ninjas.splinter-OP

Nah Cyper Pirates>Cyber Ninjas

Have you ever seen a ninja?