gamespy article on console piracy
 

// this is good article on console piracy

"Ready 2 Rumble was a big surprise." When I toured Gorbushka, in October of 1999, I found brand-new games like Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire, Resident Evil Nemesis, Metal Gear Solid: VR Mission, Age of Empires II, Ready 2 Rumble (PlayStation), Crash Team Racing, and other new or soon to be released games selling for 70 rubles -- approximately $3 (U.S.).

"A three-part look at the effects piracy has on the world of gaming"

"It's flat out too easy. It's too cheap. If it cost $500 or $600 to mod, nobody would do it. But when you can get your Xbox modified for $150 ? you can have a bigger hard drive put in. You can have 8,000 or 9,000 emulated games -- Super Nintendo, all the old Atari games, arcade games, all put on that hard drive, and still have the ability to take an original disc, put it in your machine, and copy it to the hard drive."

I'm not pro-piracy at all especially having been a software developer myself. However I still usually have little time for figures or articles about it. Just about every article I see presumes that if there are 10,000 pirated copies of a game that means 10,000 less sales and the post BS figures to match. The fact that the vast majority only have the game because it's free or very, very cheap they tend to ignore. Again, I have no time for piracy but then also none for the BS figures they spout.

but you had time to post about it :)

Ironic isn't it?