Comments on: Don’t Think of It As Piracy, Think of It As Marketing http://gigaom.com/2010/09/15/dont-think-of-it-as-piracy-think-of-it-as-marketing/ Sun, 19 May 2013 16:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: george http://gigaom.com/2010/09/15/dont-think-of-it-as-piracy-think-of-it-as-marketing/#comment-281645 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:27:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=156570#comment-281645 HI,

If you want to be anonymous on the net, the best solution is VPN.
And if you use VPN there are not problem with piracy!!!!
You can find a VPN Providers List on
http://www.start-vpn.com/

]]> By: [Communications Report] for September 17th 2010 - AndreaVascellari.com[Communications Report] for September 17th 2010 - AndreaVascellari.com | Andrea Vascellari http://gigaom.com/2010/09/15/dont-think-of-it-as-piracy-think-of-it-as-marketing/#comment-276830 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:33:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=156570#comment-276830 [...] Don’t Think of It As Piracy, Think of It As Marketing – Most video-game developers — along with most musicians, writers, movie producers and virtually every other kind of content creator — see digital piracy as an enemy to be fought with every weapon at their disposal. Not Markus Persson. While the Swedish developer of the indie game Minecraft says he isn’t happy about people copying his game illegally, he sees it as a necessary part of doing business in a digital world [...]

]]> By: Don’t Think of It As Piracy, Think of It As Marketing | Digital Asset Management http://gigaom.com/2010/09/15/dont-think-of-it-as-piracy-think-of-it-as-marketing/#comment-276373 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:41:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=156570#comment-276373 [...] Don’t Think of It As Piracy, Think of It As Marketing «. [...]

]]> By: Lucian Armasu http://gigaom.com/2010/09/15/dont-think-of-it-as-piracy-think-of-it-as-marketing/#comment-276202 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:01:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=156570#comment-276202 I agree. If they make their games like quakelive.com or host them on OnLive or other services like that, they wouldn’t have a piracy problem.

However, I also think piracy on the web happens because it’s a natural aspect of the web. Things get copied over the web. It’s how the Internet works. So why fight it? Embrace it. Just like the music studios have eventually embraced Youtube, and figured out how to make money from it even as people kept uploading their music videos.

]]> By: Rob http://gigaom.com/2010/09/15/dont-think-of-it-as-piracy-think-of-it-as-marketing/#comment-275962 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:46:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=156570#comment-275962 I have a small indie label and one of the drummers [a drummer!] put it best when I was telling them I intended on making all releases freely available:

buying an album as a way of checking out a [new to you] band is sketchy

Folks do not have to gamble on digital purchases anymore. Instead of buying something they may like, they can now focus on supporting the game developers/musicians/whoever they want to. Nothing wrong with that in my eyes.

I hate hearing about downloads as potential lost sales. As this article suggests, every download is a future potential sale.

]]> By: Sutha Kamal http://gigaom.com/2010/09/15/dont-think-of-it-as-piracy-think-of-it-as-marketing/#comment-275933 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:50:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=156570#comment-275933 I wonder if this will end up driving a greater number of game developers to move their content to online, hosted experiences, instead of downloadable apps. If technologies like WebGL and HTML5 offline storage can be made to run fast enough in browsers, game developers might be able to write games that run most of their logic locally on a user’s computer, but still require lots of frequent phoning-home to the game developer’s server.

It’d make “try-before-you-buy” a lot easier, and massively curb (or end) piracy as well.

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