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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Aye, very different.. I'm not sure if the article stated it, but game companies also don't produce games for every language/country or send it to them. So that makes it much harder for piracy to happen.
I also have found most games have online key regs that contact the servers to verify, pretty much a piracy catch for pc games/software at least.
I think pirates rule as little as the rule games, it's how we look at it. We can block all asia/east euro from our sites/members area. We can offer seamless drm protected movies too. We can slow piracy down, to almost none.
It still happens, just like it does in the millions with games.
They say they don't protect the games, but they do when they don't send them to china, a market that won't buy and is more likely to pirate. Which is a major source of our piracy.
The difference is, we set ZERO limits and expect people not to pirate.
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You can download pretty much any game and if the Chinese guy is a little bit sane and it's not exactly Fallout that he plays, he will put together how to work with the game.
China or eastern Europe can't pay for porn so let them burn their bandwith, the problem is different - it's a different product demanding an immediate satisfaction its purpose is fullfilled in a couple of minutes, for free and with pirated content, no matter if that's a Chinese or an US guy, they both have the same boner.
Once you can get 10 - 15 minutes for free every two days - you have no need to purchase a membership.
DRM is expensive and wasn't used before, because it was contraproductive and the phenomenon of immediate satisfaction with stolen content on tube sites was not there.
Now, when the time has come when it WOULD be useful it's already thousands of scenes flowing around, the tube sites can actually feed each other if they would want to.
So, it's not what to do with the content, that can be stolen tomorrow, but what to do with the busloads of content that was stolen already.
I gotta run, I suppose I broke my record in rhetorics today already anyway.