Game Developer's Response To Pirates [Slashdot]

[monkeychemist]

Piracy is a problem, absolutely, and people who acquire all their media through torrents and P2P can fuck right off and die. You are part of the problem. Seriously. Fuck you.

What problem? Are "pirates" keeping people from living their lives or affecting anyone in any substantial monetary way? nope. Piracy of software, music, games only affects the bottom line of the executives' profit sharing.

In fact, I believe the opposite. I think media piracy is GOOD for the world. If people didn't constantly challenge those companies than nothing would evolve. It is that challenge that forces companies to shell out some cash to develop some counter measures. In turn the pirates have to also get better at what they do. This simple exchange make the technology and industry knowledge evolve. How can that be bad?

I also think hackers are great (real hackers, not those assholes who send viruses or do DOS attacks). Hackers have a knowledge and drive that is very rare; they are geniuses in their own right. They curiosity drives them to challenge the software defenses of companies. Again, they have to have some counter-measures and the whole experience makes both parties more intelligent and knowledgeable.