{"id":937,"date":"2006-06-17T17:29:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T21:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2006-06-22T22:04:33","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T02:04:33","slug":"cause-and-mac-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Cause and Mac Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an article on Macworld.com (Link)<\/a> that puts more meat on the bones of the comments I’ve been making for some time: piracy has a long-term price tag that ruins things for everyone, and if people don’t understand the cause and effect relationships involved, then they’ll some day be stuck choosing from old, recycled content as the best creators simply shut down or move elsewhere.<\/p>\n

This excerpt really underscores the problem for these developers: <\/p>\n

Destineer President Peter Tamte tells me that the difference I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve described between sell-through and update downloads is more common than not. He said that when his company shipped its squad-based first-person shooter First to Fight last year, it found within a few weeks that more people were trying to log on to multiplayer servers with a single banned serial number than the total number of copies Destineer had sold combined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sad.<\/p>\n

What’s the answer? Well, publisher’s are finding it: shift to online verification systems (like Steam<\/a>) or move content to platforms that make piracy difficult\/impossible (game consoles).<\/p>\n

Just imagine all content on a heavily-DRM’d, super-technical piece of hardware that has a built-in self-destruct in the event of tampering. If it’s not here already (and I suspect it is), do you think this is going to make videogames cheaper? or more expensive?<\/p>\n

Time’s up.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to those of you who felt entitled to take someone else’s hard work. You’re on the verge of making things worse for everyone.<\/p>\n

via Blue’s News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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