[OT]Talking to Pirates

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Mike Parker" <aldacron at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:g88c5l$2urc$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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.

Very intresting reads, especially the first one.  This is particularly 
relevant to me as one of my biggest interests in programming is in the area 
of indie games.