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Has piracy really ever been a crippling problem for any business?

• coryrc 4y ago
  Yes https://irdeto.com/news/game-piracy-results-in-over-21-million-in-lost-revenue-during-opening-release-window/ https://irdeto.com/news/game-piracy-results-in-over-21-milli...
  • xtracto 4y ago
    Mhmm, that's an anti-piracy PR blurb from an "anti-piracy" service selling site. Not sure it is the most unbiased source... I think it has been demonstrated elsewhere that 1 pirated download does not equate to 1 lost sale. Where I live (Mexico) I know so many people that have pirated Adobe, Microsoft apps and plenty of games, who there is NO WAY they would have bought the software if they hadn't been able to pirate it.
• cookiengineer 4y ago
  Just read up on the famous game dev tycoon mechanism, where the gamedev (player) goes broke with his company due to too much piracy. 97% of players played the cracked game that the publisher seeded on purpose via piratebay and other trackers. They thousands of forum posts after this because pirates weren't able to realize that this was a copy protection mechanism. So yeah, I'd argue that piracy is a huge problem.