Originally Posted by halfpint

Yes you are right when you say the likes of abode and windows have been pirated to the teeth but these products are not the same as porn. Porn is a "throw away product" so to speak you use it to jack off off to then forget about it until the next time. So the surfer will just go to the next free video to see something different. With abode and microsoft they had the abilty to sell to companys who pre-install abode and windows on new computers which is a huge market, plus if it wasent hurting them why do they go to so much trouble to try and stop piracy. They also have the advantage of bringing out new and better versions every couple of years. On the other hand I am seeing how the online game industry is adapting to piracy to. They dont care if people copy their games infact they even encourage it but what they now do is sell "addons" for as little as $1.00, So the more people who play the "free version/copied version" of the game the more chance they have of selling those $1.00 addons to people. So while the adult industry is crying and whinging the mainstream are actually doing something about it.

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Jessica Tams of the Casual Games Association explains: "They create a product which you give away for free.

"So it doesn't matter if they steal it, they actually want people to steal it, because that way more people play.

"Then what they do is they sell little add-ons to the characters, or to the game, so that the consumers have to pay money, so even if they pirate the game, they still have to pay. And then they pay as much as they want."

And of course the easier the game is to play, the easier it is to port to mobile devices, which can be a real money spinner too.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/7514247.stm