Malfador Games Pirated

Azselendor · #1 January 13th, 2004, 07:05 PM

The only way we're gonna stop piracy is to get into the area of the world, in force, and wipe them out. It's not just software losing cash, it's every industry that can ship to South East Asia.

Puke · #2 January 13th, 2004, 08:07 PM

wow. thats certainly ONE solution. there is quite a bit of piracy at home, too, you know. industry estimates are 50% of all games are pirated.. thats based on their guesswork comparing sales of hintboks to sales of the game its self. I would guess that its probably significantly more than 50% domestically. Im sure its in the high 90s, overseas.

It isnt just Asia, though. Its also Eastern Europe, the Mid-East, and India. I dont know about Africa, but I would guess that its the same there, too.

Guess we are going to need one of those black-hole radiation bursts from the thread next door. Maybe it isnt too late for me to get work in NORAD.

EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro · #3 January 13th, 2004, 08:26 PM

If Sahib has to pirate games to feed his family than maybe that country in question if over populated. Maybe a world where a lot of people can't work to make a living is over populated and "Be fruitful and multiply" should be re examined. Does god want mindless followers, or followers with good sense. Anyway different threads, different solutions, Atrocities for Overlord 2004!
Cthulhu doesn't want followers with good taste, Cthulhu wants followers that taste good!
Sorry to take the OT etrance ramp.

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 January 13th, 2004, 09:42 PM

overpopulation? nope. we could feed everyone in the world from Canada and the US.

Fyron · #5 January 13th, 2004, 11:21 PM

Or from just the US. Not sure on the amount of arable land in Canada, as a lot of it is in rather frigid regions that are not suitable for crop growing, but there might be enough there to feed the world just from farms in Canada (assuming that more farms were built to support the increased export need

).

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 January 14th, 2004, 01:48 AM

well, if you divide the population of the world by the US's land mass, you do get 2 acre sections which is enough for a family of 4, but the US has deserts, so i included Canada to be sure.

EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro · #7 January 14th, 2004, 02:14 AM

I just think (although there's nothing I can do about it) that if a population is that desperate to provide for it's self that they have to resort to piracy of other countries or persons software,movies, and music, that there is something really wrong with that country. I'm thinking Indonesia here or maybe Cambodia. Anyway what can the victim country do? How many times do you say "Please Stop it" before doing something stronger. I work for a CD duplicator and we were doing a big run of some Russian CD's not knowing they were all covers of popular rock songs. We got in trouble although we didn't know what the songs were. "Hotel Kalifornia" doesn't sound the same in Russian.