Actually audiophiles are the ones buying expensive CD players thanks to (assumed) better reading of the CDs and less use of error correction or failed error correction / reads. So.. Makes sense that way but then I personally would assume I actually get the correct bits out in the end no matter what CD player I use so I wouldn't expect to get any improvements either.
Atleast with DVD-audio or SACD you get higher resolution.
The Gamecube sold for 699 sek at it's end of life.
The Wii, not much more than a Gamecube on steroids with somewhat more advanced controllers, cost 2695 sek.
Trust me, Nintendo earn a lot of money on Wii sells, even if you crack it.
And the DS still cost as much as Nintendo never use to be in the red even if their consoles sell like shit so it's a safe bet they earn money on all DSes to. Why do you think they make a lot of money while Sony and such do not?
Heck, they use to make more money than Sony even before the PS3 failure I think, go figure.
Eventually, though, in the TPB case someone mentioned that pirates actually buy MORE movies than non-pirates.
Would they still buy more if they wasn't pirates? Would that result in more sales? Maybe. All we know is that non-pirates buy less movies.
That CD sales fail isn't that weird, I want different music and I want it cheap. People just have a fixed budget for entertainment, if there is something else you rather prefer than CDs (say DVDs or Internet access), people get that instead.
The music industry need to offer a better product if they want to get peoples money.
Though, I'm only interested in supporting the actual artists/actors/scene builders/... and not everyone around that.
(I pirate for the sake of pirating, I guess it's the old collector heritage in me, it's there, I can pick it up, I get it. So what if I don't play it, I can have the option of having all games so..):D
Same for Xbox, it was a total failure until people could chip it and use the HDD for games vs the un-cracked Gamecube for instance.
Piracy is the reason Microsoft got into the console business at all.
And yes, guess it helped DS vs PSP somewhat to since PSP games could be up to 1.8 GB in size and 2 GB memory cards cost a lot of money back then.
And I also agree that if you don't make money from all the products you're doing something wrong. Somewhat unrelated I can get a new Xerox 6110 N printer for less money than the amount of toner it ships with... So when you have run out of toner it makes just as much economical (and/or service) sense to trash the whole printer and buy a new one..
It took a long time to crack the Gamecube, the DS uses some RSA signature or something such, and the DSi got an updated copyright protection, so I don't agree that they don't try to protect the content. And even if they didn't they shouldn't have to, people should respect their rights. But to claim losses because people violate their rights?
I know, but my actions don't result in lost sales since I don't even play the games when they are free, I would definitely not buy and play any games costing the amount of money they cost now.
Most of the people who copy games for their consoles get the console and the necessary devices for copying games just because they know they can copy the games if they get it all.
There is no guarantee those people would get the console and any games if they couldn't copy them.
I've got a chipped gamecube and a DS with flashcart and could kinda get all of the games for both systems but then all I do is play WC3 on my computer anyway...
I'm just not that into console gaming, I don't even play the games when they are free ffs, why would I play them if I had to pay for them?
Atleast Nintendo makes money on the consoles to so they have got my support anyway.
Parents getting said devices for their kids which would indeed get a couple of probably crappy games may be another story though.
But then Chome and Konqueror shouldn't even have made it to the major browsers list. Since both uses webkit I'm sure they will get there soon enough they to.
Yeah, it's a weird game, marketed as something you play in your browser and not just "as any game but with web stats" but you can only play it in Windows...
It may also make the encrypted and/or "anonymous" and/or darknet alternatives develop and flourish faster. Though, then they can ban using them, which I won't give a crap about if they do and just use it anyway..
A vote for the pirate party felt like such a waste last time so the green people got mine;D, it's such a small cause... I could even vote for the swedish democrats:D
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Maybe the come free of bit-corrupting copy protection?
Uhm, Sony? Guess not then.
Actually audiophiles are the ones buying expensive CD players thanks to (assumed) better reading of the CDs and less use of error correction or failed error correction / reads. So .. Makes sense that way but then I personally would assume I actually get the correct bits out in the end no matter what CD player I use so I wouldn't expect to get any improvements either.
Atleast with DVD-audio or SACD you get higher resolution.
Is it a complete cartridge or something empty which I fill? Link? I need to find some in Sweden.
The Gamecube sold for 699 sek at it's end of life.
The Wii, not much more than a Gamecube on steroids with somewhat more advanced controllers, cost 2695 sek.
Trust me, Nintendo earn a lot of money on Wii sells, even if you crack it.
And the DS still cost as much as Nintendo never use to be in the red even if their consoles sell like shit so it's a safe bet they earn money on all DSes to. Why do you think they make a lot of money while Sony and such do not?
Heck, they use to make more money than Sony even before the PS3 failure I think, go figure.
Isn't the governments role to uphold the laws? And the copyright protection is part of the justice system? So ..
But Nintendo make money on consoles to, I know Sony PS3 and old Xbox didn't, but that's a different story.
I am supporting them. A DS don't cost $100+ to manufacture.
Eventually, though, in the TPB case someone mentioned that pirates actually buy MORE movies than non-pirates.
Would they still buy more if they wasn't pirates? Would that result in more sales? Maybe. All we know is that non-pirates buy less movies.
That CD sales fail isn't that weird, I want different music and I want it cheap. People just have a fixed budget for entertainment, if there is something else you rather prefer than CDs (say DVDs or Internet access), people get that instead.
The music industry need to offer a better product if they want to get peoples money.
Though, I'm only interested in supporting the actual artists/actors/scene builders/... and not everyone around that.
(I pirate for the sake of pirating, I guess it's the old collector heritage in me, it's there, I can pick it up, I get it. So what if I don't play it, I can have the option of having all games so ..) :D
Same for Xbox, it was a total failure until people could chip it and use the HDD for games vs the un-cracked Gamecube for instance.
Piracy is the reason Microsoft got into the console business at all.
And yes, guess it helped DS vs PSP somewhat to since PSP games could be up to 1.8 GB in size and 2 GB memory cards cost a lot of money back then.
And I also agree that if you don't make money from all the products you're doing something wrong. Somewhat unrelated I can get a new Xerox 6110 N printer for less money than the amount of toner it ships with ... So when you have run out of toner it makes just as much economical (and/or service) sense to trash the whole printer and buy a new one ..
It took a long time to crack the Gamecube, the DS uses some RSA signature or something such, and the DSi got an updated copyright protection, so I don't agree that they don't try to protect the content. And even if they didn't they shouldn't have to, people should respect their rights. But to claim losses because people violate their rights?
I know, but my actions don't result in lost sales since I don't even play the games when they are free, I would definitely not buy and play any games costing the amount of money they cost now.
Most of the people who copy games for their consoles get the console and the necessary devices for copying games just because they know they can copy the games if they get it all.
There is no guarantee those people would get the console and any games if they couldn't copy them.
I've got a chipped gamecube and a DS with flashcart and could kinda get all of the games for both systems but then all I do is play WC3 on my computer anyway ...
I'm just not that into console gaming, I don't even play the games when they are free ffs, why would I play them if I had to pay for them?
Atleast Nintendo makes money on the consoles to so they have got my support anyway.
Parents getting said devices for their kids which would indeed get a couple of probably crappy games may be another story though.
Yeah, there seem to be a difference there, in the US they want to get the money by bribes and in the EU by fines.
(Or it just takes forever in the US to get something done.)
only via "army/navy" resellers who jack up the price 1000% so they can make a healthy profit.
Ohnoz, $150 for a jeep, teh horrorz!
I just assumed he was referring to EVE so I must be so much better than you guys! I rock!
Except that wasn't easy to read at all, you messed it up way too much. Sure it was readable but ..
Atleast you can rest assure DealExtreme sell replacement screens for your Nokla N82!
I don't say it won't soon be, but I doubt it currently is.
It's still very fresh, though probably quite feature complete thanks to webkit heritage, it currently only run on Windows.
But then Chome and Konqueror shouldn't even have made it to the major browsers list. Since both uses webkit I'm sure they will get there soon enough they to.
IE is the problem, like always.
Or get a mac, Linux, whatever UNIX, so on so on, people use to shout how they can't get any viruses.
I wouldn't call that neglecting, good luck getting the virus in the first place if you don't meet anyone.
You can player Q3 in many more places than Quake Live, as it's now at least.
That is the very basics, to get marginally good in quake you need master bunny jumping and such as well.
Yeah, it's a weird game, marketed as something you play in your browser and not just "as any game but with web stats" but you can only play it in Windows ...
The bulletin boards syntax, retard.
It may also make the encrypted and/or "anonymous" and/or darknet alternatives develop and flourish faster. Though, then they can ban using them, which I won't give a crap about if they do and just use it anyway ..
A vote for the pirate party felt like such a waste last time so the green people got mine ;D, it's such a small cause... I could even vote for the swedish democrats :D