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ESA Praises Sting of Game Software Pirates
Next Generation reports on the arrest of 19 software pirates in Chicago. The ESA sent along their congratulations to federal law enforcement officers, who took down the warez dealers as part of a task force titled 'Opereration Site Down'. From the article: "The international piracy warez group known as 'RISCISO' reportedly pirated $6.5 million worth of games, software and movies since it began operations in 1998. The group maintained several servers that contained 23,000 CD ROMs worth of pirated material, according to the ESA."
I hope not. I hope those who spend time, research, and money into creating new software get paid for their product. You know, kinda like everyone else.
if they will notice that despite all these piracy busts they do, their profits still remain the same.
But look at any other industry. The cost of figuring out how to build the car is much of the cost you pay for one. You only have to figure out how to build the first one. Same goes for a lot of other things that require knowledge to build. If you only consider the costs of the production of the product, and not the work that goes into figuring out how to produce it, then everything ends up looking like it should cost much less than it does.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.