Downloading of games soon to be heavily punished?

Bren86 - 420 days 14 hours ago

Piracy will never be stopped.

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yog-sothot - 420 days 14 hours ago

I live in Belgium, right next to France, so I follow that story closely. I'd like to add that European Union deeply disagrees with such a law, so it might change quite soon... And as Bren86 says, that won't stop piracy. Games less expensive, interesting DLC, micro payments, monthly fees, special editions... Those are ideas that could diminish piracy imo. Not stupid laws or technical crap like DRM.

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Yi-Long - 420 days 14 hours ago

... and way over the top.

People download because of the heavy pricing and software-protection (DRM) etc.

Plus lots of people download to check if a game will work on their system, or to watch a movie/series/tvshows (Colbert Report) that isnt released in their country.

Console software I buy. PC software I download.
Movies (DVD) I buy, (anime)series I download.

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McLuvn - 420 days 13 hours ago

Keel Haul the scurvy dogs.

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wrshredder - 420 days 13 hours ago

Well console makers should use good ol' game cartridges.
Pirate that scumbags!

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steve30x - 420 days 12 hours ago

What they failed to mention in that article is that is a 3 strikes law. you get3 chances and at the 3 time you are caught you are banned from the internet. This is a good Law but they need a law that Games Developers make Demos. This would also reduce Piracy a whole lot. Games Developers need to realise that we need a demo to test their game otherwise we will download to try.

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Marcan21 - 420 days 12 hours ago

what happens if it is someone of the family ? everyone is banned ? you can't ban someone because his parent/sister/children downloaded something illegaly, and there are no ways to check...

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warfed - 420 days 12 hours ago

I'm not doing anything illegal... here in Canada it is legal to download movies music etc. but illegal to upload them. It's even legal to use p2p here but that's to slow anyways RS FTW!

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Yi-Long - 420 days 12 hours ago

... what would happen if you'd ban everyne of those from the internet!? It's impossible, and internet-providers will surely complain, cause they will lose alot of customers.

Also, why pay for high Inet-speeds, when you cant download anymore!? Everyone will just get the cheap cheap package.

Besides... prosecuting so many people will cost much much more than society will ever gain from it.

Also, dvd-sales are extremely high. CD-sales are still high. Videogames-sales are through the roof. The whole argument that downloading is hurting the business, is just beyond ridiculous.
Quality products (providing they had proper marketing) will always sell well.

Here in Holland, the only 'artists' complaining about 'piracy' are the crappy and/or hasbeen artists. 1 example: Some actress turned singer complained a while ago how everyone was supposedly downloading her album and thus she was supposedly missing income: turned out her album wasnt even on the sharing-websites(!) Crappy singer as well btw.

If musicians wanna make more money: cut out the middle man (the producing companies) and release it on your own, and either lower the price of the CD, or do what Radiohead did, and just let people pay whatever they wanna pay for it. That works.

As said, dvd and games-sales are still through the roof, and many of those sales come from people who maybe first tried a few torrents, then decided they liked it enough to pick it up. Not every download is a potential sale, but a few certainly are. And some of those sales wouldnt have existed if it hadnt been for the ability to sample it first.

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comm13 - 420 days 10 hours ago

lol try banning me from the internet, see how well that goes haha, talk about restricting freedom, this will never work.

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Ps3Fanboy777 - 420 days 10 hours ago

People will find a way around it, most likely they will start bypassing ISP's all together or hacking into the ISP itself or just using someone elses connection to do it.

Good luck.

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Hamadzedan - 419 days 23 hours ago

if they blocked rapidshare only... make sure that more than 70% of piracy will be killed.

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jeffaustin90 - 419 days 16 hours ago

Wanna reduce piracy? Put media on a new medium. Cubes, crystals, whatever. Just put it on something that people can't copy, and get rid of discs.

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