Software piracy where you live
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It is exactly opposite here....you will hardly find Genuine softwares here////
You will find genuine soft only in Branded PCs that too becse it comes pre-installed.....but you will always find only *pir***** stuff on Assembled PCs...same is true for games also...prices are simply so high that people prefer to buy other stuff//
You will find genuine soft only in Branded PCs that too becse it comes pre-installed.....but you will always find only *pir***** stuff on Assembled PCs...same is true for games also...prices are simply so high that people prefer to buy other stuff//
i think it's outrageous.
outrageous that games are priced too high for certain parts of the world. so much so that people have to resort to piracy to be able to play them.
outrageous that hardware and software companied are not doing ANYTHING to avoid that from happening.
i mean, charging less for the games would ensure them with more profit than the NOTHING they get from people buying pirated games...
one of the reasons why games are so expensive IS because of piracy. it also happens to music cd's and DVD's by the way...
outrageous that games are priced too high for certain parts of the world. so much so that people have to resort to piracy to be able to play them.
outrageous that hardware and software companied are not doing ANYTHING to avoid that from happening.
i mean, charging less for the games would ensure them with more profit than the NOTHING they get from people buying pirated games...
one of the reasons why games are so expensive IS because of piracy. it also happens to music cd's and DVD's by the way...
Deepak said:
Ditto, I can't find even a single original copy of software. Everything is pirated here (hmm, not quite since I'm living in US now). And the good thing is, there's no difference in quality between the piracy software and the original softwares or games, but movies do look much different.
I live in Richmond (Near Vancouver BC). Just to set the stage, here in Richmond Chinese --largely from Hong Kong-- are the majority. There isn't much first degree pirating --selling unlicensed material for profit-- in the mainstream malls. If you go to the Oriental malls, then it's a different story, there are a lot of them. When it comes to everyday second degree pirating --giving away unlicensed material-- is VERY common.
on PC you have a wide choice of budget titles for 15 euros, on console you also have value editions to for 50% of the normal price, even less..
but even at these prices, it is too much for much for the pirates who won't buy any game, even if it is priced very low.
why pay for something you can have for free ?
if someone has the money for the PC and/or the consoles, he has the money for buying some software too.
but even at these prices, it is too much for much for the pirates who won't buy any game, even if it is priced very low.
why pay for something you can have for free ?
if someone has the money for the PC and/or the consoles, he has the money for buying some software too.
Magnum PI said:
Yeah, if the price of the software were to be 15 euros, or the console game were still to be hanging about 50 % of its normal price, nobody would buy the piracy software. But in my country, you can get PS2 software (DVD), with merely 1 dollar (CD version only weighs about 45- 50 cents). Xbox DVD is only about 2 dollars. Now that's what you call a deal.
Evil_Cloud
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I live in Belgium (upper part)
I've never seen any bootlegs or copies in shops, exept for some bootleg anime DVD's, but that's just one shop in antwerp
Prices here are €60 or more (€ = $ nowadays ) for a game...Quite a lot
I've never seen any bootlegs or copies in shops, exept for some bootleg anime DVD's, but that's just one shop in antwerp
Prices here are €60 or more (€ = $ nowadays
) for a game...Quite a lot hi,
when i was on hollidays in Turkey, i saw they sold pirated softtware (pc, playstation, vcd...) in a supermarket!
just between the mice, network cards and the cdr's
here in Belgium, there are a LOT of people who mod their consoles and only play backups. most of them buy them from others trough forums or ads on the internet..
when i was on hollidays in Turkey, i saw they sold pirated softtware (pc, playstation, vcd...) in a supermarket!
just between the mice, network cards and the cdr's
here in Belgium, there are a LOT of people who mod their consoles and only play backups. most of them buy them from others trough forums or ads on the internet..
I live in Zurich, Switzerland - to my knowledge, pirating of console games isn't that wide spread. Of course, you could get them if you really wanted to, but I think nowdays, a lot of pirating takes place over P2P networks such as Kaazaa or Emule/eDonkey. It's so easy actually. You can get the console modded by some places (quick to find a place by asking a few people, sometimes, big shops carry them out at the back office) and then download ISO's through PS2 and then burn them yourself. I don't think a lot of people do it though. Unfortunately, game prices and consoles are quite expesnive overhere... ok, I guess if the people are stupid enough to buy it at the price, you can't blame them for not reducing it... :?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with regards to SARS afaik Honk Kong has been declared a safe area again, along with Singapore, a while back.
Anyway back on topic, living in Seoul, it's probably not quite as piracy hot as HK, but you can nonetheless get copies of just about anything from games to music, anime, movies, and it's in shops that are often just next to those selling official stuff.
Even to the point where you can buy both copied and original games in the same store - all you have to do is ask (as they have originals on display, not copies).
Anyway back on topic, living in Seoul, it's probably not quite as piracy hot as HK, but you can nonetheless get copies of just about anything from games to music, anime, movies, and it's in shops that are often just next to those selling official stuff.
Even to the point where you can buy both copied and original games in the same store - all you have to do is ask (as they have originals on display, not copies).
Fafalada said:
Yes, WHO has removed the travel warning to Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, China on May 23. But still in the list of infected areas unless there is no new cases for 20 consecutive days. I think Singapore has already meet that requirement. Hong Kong still has some way to go, but new cases are already rare now.
Fafalada said:
Most of the people buying pirated stuffs in Hong Kong make up the reasons for themselves.
Buying pirated stuffs is not only a case in the lower income segment, the people in the high income segment will also still buy pirated stuffs (but they don't brag about it like the people in other segments).
A portion of them is a mix, they buy both pirated copies and sometimes legit copies.
Pirated stuffs "business" is not as "prosperous" as before as the customs department has been actively after the pirates (especially the PC software pirates, you have to look for them now) after the new copyright law has passed the legco a few years back.
embargiel said:
here with budget/value/platinum reeditions *you can* buy original PC games for 15 euros or less, console games for less than 50 % their original price (less than 30 euros)
even if the latest hits are expensive you can buy very good games for a cheap price, they are just a little bit older.. and you'll find current hits low-priced in some monthes..
so here money is not an excuse for piracy.
as long as originals are sold at an higher price than a CD-R, piracy will continue.
In Taipei, there are almost no bootleg games in stores. There were stores selling bootleg console games several years ago, but they are almost all gone by now. However, some smaller stores still selling mod consoles. They perhaps also sell bootleg console games at some specific time (not in public). There is almost no store sells bootleg PC games. That's probably because PC games are usually much reasonably priced than console games (PC games range from NT$200 ~ NT$1,000 (US$6 ~ US$30), most console games are NT$800 ~ NT$1,600 (US$23 ~ US$46)).
There are still some "pitchmen" selling bootleg games/softwares/videos around some places. I heard some of them are backed by mafia.
Another interesting thing is, there are many OEM version of Windows. You can buy them without buying any hardwares (which is against the license agreement, of course).
There are still some bootleg Japanese animes in some stores. However, since many anime DVDs get legally imported by dealers, bootleg anime DVDs are disappearing. Bootleg anime CDs are, however, still abundant.
These are what I've seen in Taipei. In Hsinchu (where I lives) it seems quite similar. I don't know much about other places, though.
There are still some "pitchmen" selling bootleg games/softwares/videos around some places. I heard some of them are backed by mafia.
Another interesting thing is, there are many OEM version of Windows.
You can buy them without buying any hardwares (which is against the license agreement, of course).There are still some bootleg Japanese animes in some stores. However, since many anime DVDs get legally imported by dealers, bootleg anime DVDs are disappearing. Bootleg anime CDs are, however, still abundant.
These are what I've seen in Taipei. In Hsinchu (where I lives) it seems quite similar. I don't know much about other places, though.
