Re:Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a C...
by Dudenoso on Thursday January 11, 2018 @06:21AM
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>Most people will buy the game if they can, but the world economics are such that for 90% of your potential user base, 60$ represent an insurmountable financial investment.
>Bulllllllshiiiiiiiiit.
The third world is numerically bigger than the first world.
60$ is a lot for places without a strong currency.
Have you ever lived in a third world country with a wage that wasn't above the richest 5%?
Yeah, I'm a long time lurker and created an account just for that.
Re:Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a C...
by pennaMan on Thursday January 11, 2018 @06:04AM
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Back when I was a teen 60$ was about 25% of my household income.
Since then and present day I still don't know a single console owning person that has not hardware modded it to work with pirated games.
Bulllllllshiiiiiiiiit.
> As just one example - consider game rentals. Consoles have incredibly low piracy rates, but a healthy (or at least used to be) game rental scene. If someone can only give me 5$ for my game, why should I snub that money?
There's no game rental scene. Like zero. And consoles have incredibly low piracy rates because they have very effective DRM and closed platforms, which a certain contingent of Hacker News likes to pretend is the cause of piracy.