Disciples 3 - What kind of protection?

[Herbert Holman]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

I think TippeX rather meant the fact that, in Asia, you can purchase very much original looking software for a fraction of the original price IN A SHOP

You can do that even in my country, and is not asia, but is not even legal.
Also, for piracy i mean primary P2P (torrent) and the likes (rapidshare, and so on...).
Games sold at black market is smuggling, another tipe of piracy not included in the report linked upon.

Originally Posted by wolfsrain

But if you look to the countries where the piracy level is high, one of the main cause is the poor economy of those countries.

I just think this: if you give people the chooice to buy a 5$ or to download for free, people always choose to download, with rare exception.
Why? Because whe live in capitalistic country, so every $ not spent is a $ gained.

Originally Posted by wolfsrain

In Eastern Europe, the piracy rate is high not only because of the poor economy, but also of a lack of a good distribution chain. Also the prices in Eastern Europe are even higher for many products. Example Fallout 1 it can be bought on the western market with maximum 5 euro. In Eastern Europe, the price doubles. It's a combination of greed, lack of a long-term vision and the fact that most of the distribution chains in Eastern Europe don't have any real competition.

There is one thing positive in global market: you can buy whatever you want, whenever you want.
Using proxy o VPN you can reach site "out of usual range", also you can simply get an anonymous box with the game, no one is go to block you (well, maybe if you live in a dictatorship country... but i think is not our case, right? ).

I always buy game at the lesser price, via eBay or public forum (some got a little market of scrapped games, is easy to find them, at least in my country).