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Piracy is as wide spread as cheating in multiplayer games. Its a sad sick state of affairs when you log onto a Half-Life Counterstrike server and get killed by a cheater who is using a pirated copy of the game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Us honest folks can't win to save our asses.

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Richard:
No we don't go by patch downloads, we have very accurate ways of finding out what the piracy rates are for our games.<hr></blockquote>

I was wondering if the "ways" include getting some stats from this bulletin board... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

And, no, I bought the game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I know how you do that too Richard, it set my firewall off. Very clever. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Huh? What do they do that set off your firewall?

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We don't trasmit anything from your computer, the game automatically tried to phone out to make sure you have a net connection.

Sending out info from a game is illegal, Bliizard got in a lot of trouble for it and we certaintly wouldn't repeat that.

No we do a lot of research on the "warez" scene, that's all.

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Ok, just making sure.

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Just making sure. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Richard:
We don't trasmit anything from your computer, the game automatically tried to phone out to make sure you have a net connection.

Sending out info from a game is illegal, Bliizard got in a lot of trouble for it and we certaintly wouldn't repeat that.

No we do a lot of research on the "warez" scene, that's all.<hr></blockquote>

Heh... after all, how do the 'warez kiddiez' know if you're a software publisher checking up on them? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Even if you manage to count the number of times people download a game from warez sites, those may be copyright violations, but they don't equate to lost sales. Many people pirate games to check them out. Some of them probably continue to use the pirated Version and would have bought it if they couldn't pirate it, but I'd think that would be a rather small fraction compared to the number who download the pirated Version but don't get into it, and would never have bought it, or do get into it, and end up buying a legit copy.

PvK

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PVK I agree with you there.