Independent Dev Reports Over 80% Piracy Rate On DRM-Free Game

An anonymous reader writes "Developer 2D Boy has written that they are seeing an 82% piracy rate for everyone's favorite DRM-free physics puzzler, World of Goo . Surprisingly, this rate is in-line with what they were expecting. The article also features a fascinating comparison with the piracy rate of another game that was shipped complete with DRM, at 92%. There seemed to be no major difference in the outcomes of the rate regardless of whether DRM was used or not ... well, no difference other than the cost to implement such nonsense."

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Re:Only sane conclusion

[Hurricane78]

Hey, I'm sorry, but I have to tell you, that there is no such thing as objectivity.
What you meant, was that it fits your own personal world view of what is fair and right.
In other words: You said "I agree, and I want more people to agree with me."

This is perfectly valid, because everyone exists to spread his genes and views (the two methods of reproduction), and I with you good luck with it, as long as it does not hurt my reproduction.
But don't lie to you and to others by acting, as if this had anything to do with objectivity.

Please don't feel offended. I got this mixed up too, until some time ago. I thought there were some absolute "right" and "wrong" and "true" values.
The closest thing to this are physics laws and mathematics. But hey, in reality, what meaning does the number "3" or the word "gravity" have, if there is nobody (by definition with his own point of view) defining it? What is the definition of reality?
Maybe the only thing we all can agree on, is that everything in this universe/reality, whatever it is, is relative.