[OT]Talking to Pirates

[Mike Parker]

I'm not usually one for posting off topic, but this is something 
relevant to a discussion that has spread across three threads so far :)

Cliff Harris, an independent game developer, recently went out and asked 
why pirates do what they do. He got an overwhelming response. You can 
read the results here:

http://www.positech.co.uk/talkingtopirates.html

Additionally, earlier this year one of the most successful indie game 
companies out there discovered that 92% of the full version copies of 
one of their games were pirated. There is a writeup about it, with some 
details on how they tried to reduce that number, over at Gamasutra:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17350

I thought some of the parties on both sides of the discussions here 
might find these links interesting.