Do Game Publishers Ignore Piracy?

daRk_heLmet · Jul 19, 2005, 04:59 PM

All but lost in the entertainment overload that's crushing Hollywood is an unheralded but multibillion-dollar burden: videogame piracy.

The music and movie industries, blindsided by the Web, have been swimming upstream against the digital revolution, suing college students for illegal downloads and fighting tech companies all the way to the Supreme Court, because they believe their business has been hurt by it. But the videogame industry, whose intellectual property is just as valuable, has been comparatively complacent in fighting piracy, despite an estimated $3.5 billion in annual losses worldwide.
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**MIG-31** · Jul 19, 2005, 05:05 PM

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