1) Make a game that's worth buying. 2) Sell it at a price that people are willing to pay. 3) Don't make piracy a better experience than buying the real thing. 4) Give your customers a legitimate way to try the game for free.
Sure, there are and always will be people who pirate games just because they can. There really isn't a way to stop this.
The vast majority who do pirate usually fall into one of these categories, though.
For me, the only reason I've pirated since graduating HS is #3, and even then I have only used pirated versions of games I own, or for games that I legitimately can't find (especially Dreamcast games).
And this is another reason why I am glad that I was a math major in college.
Most of the books are old enough that you can choose to buy the original edition or the newest edition with the only difference being that some small errors are fixed. Unlike some subjects where one year is the first editions, the next year is the second, and up until the fifth, then they start a new series of textbooks, my eighth-edition textbook is the eighth since 1948.
Then again, the most recently published textbook I own is Euclidean Geometry - With Computers!
There is a much easier way to deal with updates than GP's method:
Click the start menu. Click "Control Panel." Click "System and Security." Click "Turn automatic updating on or off." Change "Install updates automatically (recommended)" to any of the other three options.
Congratulations! Now you won't get surprised by Windows Update automatically installing updates that require reboot.
Even though Iran and North Korea might threaten to send a nuke our way, they won't. There is no "theory of mutual destruction" with Iran or North Korea. There is them launching a nuke, us shooting it down over the ocean, then them getting invaded by the entire civilized world.
Also, in case you haven't been following the North Korea story, they've threatened to launch a nuclear weapon towards the US nine times in the last eighteen years.
For one, northern latitudes get more light in the summer.
But also, let's look at the area between 49N and 60N. As a Canadian, you'll recognize this as the entirety of three provinces, and the majority of four others. Most Europeans, however, would recognize that as large parts of France, Slovakia, and the Ukraine to the south, large parts of Norway, and Sweden to the north, and the entirety of Ireland, Britain and the British Isles, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark (excluding Greenland), Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and the majority of Germany, the Czech Republic, and European Russia.
That's hardly land that cannot grow enough food to support a burgeoning population.
And we actually KNOW, based on evidence, that removing speed limits and unnecessary signage actually increases safety.
With a speed limit, and especially ones that are loosely enforced in places such as US, drivers spend most of their time trying to guess what speed they can get away with and looking out for cops lying in wait for speeders (or speed cameras).
Without speed limits, the driver is forced to ask himself "Is this safe?" They don't need to worry about seeing a parked police car, because it doesn't matter whether the cop's personal threshold for speeding is 5, 10, or 15 over the speed limit, just whether the car is driving dangerously or not.
Also, getting rid of speed limits where they aren't necessary (a straight section of divided highway) makes people actually pay attention when they are necessary. As it is, when I see a speed limit that seems extremely low compared to what speed I would feel safe, I immediately start looking for police. It would be safer if I actually knew the reason for that speed limit, rather than me thinking that it's just a speed trap used to increase revenue.
You are acting like low-budget movies are rare or even a brand new concept.
However, I would be willing to make a significant wager that low-budget horror forms the plurality of movies made today. Hell, they're not the only group of people making low-budget horror films in Milwaukee that I know of (RedLetterMedia and Mark Borchardt from American Movie).
Also, it's easy for an aspiring film maker to start with horror, since most horror movies use a very simple plot and rely on standard cliches. Plus, they've seen a lot of famous directors get their start by making low-budget horror, and hope they'll get the same break.
Personally, I am a huge fan of the genre. Sure, most of it is laughably stupid, but it can be awesome when you find a certain creativity that would likely get shot down if the filmmaker had to answer to anyone. If it's a shitty movie, though, I will call it a shitty movie. It doesn't matter if they were able to make the movie for free, or whether it cost a billion dollars.
I haven't seen the movie, but I find it incredibly odd for one who has also not watched the movie to complain about people saying the movie is bad. It probably even is a bad movie, but I'll still watch it in hopes of seeing some creativity or maybe a movie that is done so poorly that it's funny. I don't expect most other people to enjoy that though, and don't look down my nose at them for preferring movies that are more polished and professional looking, with actors that can actually act.
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This is my thought as well.
We can argue all day whether it is right for them to do, but not so much whether or not they have a right to do it.
I guess I'm fine with Jedi performing the marriages, so long as they don't get married themselves.
1) Make a game that's worth buying.
2) Sell it at a price that people are willing to pay.
3) Don't make piracy a better experience than buying the real thing.
4) Give your customers a legitimate way to try the game for free.
Sure, there are and always will be people who pirate games just because they can. There really isn't a way to stop this.
The vast majority who do pirate usually fall into one of these categories, though.
For me, the only reason I've pirated since graduating HS is #3, and even then I have only used pirated versions of games I own, or for games that I legitimately can't find (especially Dreamcast games).
Of course, the moment that the industry decides that it is useful, it will cease to be useful.
Hulu might make a bit of sense to use, since it's people actively seeking and watching content. The biggest issue I see would be availability.
There's a short video clip of the drone in TVA.
Unless that thing is going to be pretty high up, that is a loud, annoying sound for a place that asks for quiet when a player is about to take a shot.
And this is another reason why I am glad that I was a math major in college.
Most of the books are old enough that you can choose to buy the original edition or the newest edition with the only difference being that some small errors are fixed. Unlike some subjects where one year is the first editions, the next year is the second, and up until the fifth, then they start a new series of textbooks, my eighth-edition textbook is the eighth since 1948.
Then again, the most recently published textbook I own is Euclidean Geometry - With Computers!
There is also the option of reading TFA.
But all joking aside...
If creating roadkill is the cause, then I've been doing part for years!
The problem with T Mobile is that it has terrible coverage for large parts of the country.
To get 4G internet in my town and in the two closest larger cities, I would either need to have T Mobile AND Sprint, or either Verizon or AT&T.
Bicyclists annoy people more than enough as is.
Add in that they're using larger, slower vehicles, and have a strong incentive to be aggressive, and I'm sure people will like them better!
Even though alcohol and caffeine are known diuretics, it is a myth that they dehydrate.
Unless you're drinking everclear, you are absorbing more liquid than you expel.
Not only can you disable the behavior, you can avoid having to deal with it in five mouse clicks.
There is a much easier way to deal with updates than GP's method:
Click the start menu.
Click "Control Panel."
Click "System and Security."
Click "Turn automatic updating on or off."
Change "Install updates automatically (recommended)" to any of the other three options.
Congratulations! Now you won't get surprised by Windows Update automatically installing updates that require reboot.
Sorry, but aren't that still banning all porn not on the internet?
Are Playboy magazines and porn DVDs still legal?
Also, how, exactly, is porn defined according to these statutes?
Even though Iran and North Korea might threaten to send a nuke our way, they won't. There is no "theory of mutual destruction" with Iran or North Korea. There is them launching a nuke, us shooting it down over the ocean, then them getting invaded by the entire civilized world.
Also, in case you haven't been following the North Korea story, they've threatened to launch a nuclear weapon towards the US nine times in the last eighteen years.
GP was talking about light.
Unless you know of how the Gulf Stream transmits more light to the UK than to Canada, of course.
For one, northern latitudes get more light in the summer.
But also, let's look at the area between 49N and 60N. As a Canadian, you'll recognize this as the entirety of three provinces, and the majority of four others. Most Europeans, however, would recognize that as large parts of France, Slovakia, and the Ukraine to the south, large parts of Norway, and Sweden to the north, and the entirety of Ireland, Britain and the British Isles, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark (excluding Greenland), Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and the majority of Germany, the Czech Republic, and European Russia.
That's hardly land that cannot grow enough food to support a burgeoning population.
And we actually KNOW, based on evidence, that removing speed limits and unnecessary signage actually increases safety.
With a speed limit, and especially ones that are loosely enforced in places such as US, drivers spend most of their time trying to guess what speed they can get away with and looking out for cops lying in wait for speeders (or speed cameras).
Without speed limits, the driver is forced to ask himself "Is this safe?" They don't need to worry about seeing a parked police car, because it doesn't matter whether the cop's personal threshold for speeding is 5, 10, or 15 over the speed limit, just whether the car is driving dangerously or not.
Also, getting rid of speed limits where they aren't necessary (a straight section of divided highway) makes people actually pay attention when they are necessary. As it is, when I see a speed limit that seems extremely low compared to what speed I would feel safe, I immediately start looking for police. It would be safer if I actually knew the reason for that speed limit, rather than me thinking that it's just a speed trap used to increase revenue.
I know you're making a joke, but we already have for-profit prisons.
It's doesn't seem like that much of a stretch for us to start for-profit community service.
You are acting like low-budget movies are rare or even a brand new concept.
However, I would be willing to make a significant wager that low-budget horror forms the plurality of movies made today. Hell, they're not the only group of people making low-budget horror films in Milwaukee that I know of (RedLetterMedia and Mark Borchardt from American Movie).
Also, it's easy for an aspiring film maker to start with horror, since most horror movies use a very simple plot and rely on standard cliches. Plus, they've seen a lot of famous directors get their start by making low-budget horror, and hope they'll get the same break.
Personally, I am a huge fan of the genre. Sure, most of it is laughably stupid, but it can be awesome when you find a certain creativity that would likely get shot down if the filmmaker had to answer to anyone. If it's a shitty movie, though, I will call it a shitty movie. It doesn't matter if they were able to make the movie for free, or whether it cost a billion dollars.
I haven't seen the movie, but I find it incredibly odd for one who has also not watched the movie to complain about people saying the movie is bad. It probably even is a bad movie, but I'll still watch it in hopes of seeing some creativity or maybe a movie that is done so poorly that it's funny. I don't expect most other people to enjoy that though, and don't look down my nose at them for preferring movies that are more polished and professional looking, with actors that can actually act.
They could still be telling the truth.
If 95% use 2Gb or less, and the mean usage is 26Gb per month, then the average heavy user only uses about 700Gb per month.
You say that as if wiretapping laws are used anymore.
Well, except by police officers who don't want to be recorded.
Bing accounts for 2% of the group of people who use search engines.
100% of people able to use a search engine are capable of using Bing.
Steam for Linux accounts for 2% of the group of people who use Steam.
1.2% of people able to use Steam are capable of using Steam for Linux.
That is collusion of itself, since the companies agree not to have more than one cable and one DSL company compete in any given area.
You seem to make the assumption that DVD + legal home downloads generates more money than DVD + suing people at random.