Forum: Complaint & Debate


Subject: Anatomy of a warez bust (how to stop illegal software distribution)

Nosfiratu opened this issue on Mar 30, 2001 ยท 42 posts


Lord Derik posted Sat, 31 March 2001 at 1:48 AM

Anthony, Do you truly believe that removing warez copies will increase sales ? The average warez junkie is just interested in expanding his collection and as such increase his standing with his peers. Maybe one or two percent of the pirate copies of poser might end up being used and of those maybe 99.9% would not buy the product if they had to, so what are you losing, a few sales, a very few sales ? On the other side there is the cost of your time to curious labs. I just don't see how the justification is there. Before anyone jumps at me I'm totally against piracy and believe that everyone should be rewarded for there efforts, however I think that the losses that we see in the media are somewhat exaggerated. All in all I think Anthony is doing a great job, I've seen the reaction on some of the boards to his letters, some of the responses are classics, however is it MAKING Curious Labs money ? I don't think so. cya Derik