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Piracy And Video Games: Is There A Light At The End Of The Tunnel?, Maxim Tsotsorin
Piracy And Video Games: Is There A Light At The End Of The Tunnel?, Maxim Tsotsorin
Maxim Tsotsorin
Over the past couple decades piracy has become a relatively low-cost business – available technology has made making a copy of a videogame as easy as ripping off a music CD on your personal laptop – with a click of a button. Digital color copiers make CD inserts that look better than originals, and printing technology allows printing on CDs without messy stickers. In the Internet universe, multitude of bit-torrents and peer-to-peer sharing platforms provide videogame pirates with an unlimited distribution market and low cost operations. The industry’s countermeasures, however, also has not stayed still. The game developers employ a …