-Daniel
Interesting videos
-Daniel
Other Experience- Life Hacker
While reading Lucky hacker's post "Why I Stopped Pirating and Started Paying for Media." he starts by talking about how "most of us have illegally downloaded something in our lives" and goes on to say why he began to pirate videos in the first place.
Starting in the mid 2000's he says " Digital was confusing and expensive" during this time nothing was easy if you wanted to go digital. It was annoying just to download software because of the tricky payment service. Music download was between $9.99 and $15.99. So instead of going through un trusting websites that left your details all over the internet he decided to pirate games and software.
He goes on to talk about "Why I Stopped Pirating and Went Legit" saying that he stopped everything immediately and didn't even realize that he had stop pirating. These day are better compared to before, most music,software etc , digital copies come out the same day they are in the stores.Media companies have made it easier to access files and with software like Spotify and Rdio sampling music and other forms of media makes it a breeze,without having to pirate.
Life Hacker has good points that you may or may not agree too but also may be able to relate to, go visit his website and check out what he says in his full article.
- Sarah Hess
More Information
In the USA they took the data from people using Bit-Torrent and created a chart:
PC gaming has "around a 93-95% piracy rate" claims Ubisoft CEO" posted on PC gamer.
Using the link below or the reference in the reference page, you can read the full article and why Ubisoft "embracing the free to play model. "
PC Gamer
The Guardian discuss why "Piracy is part of the digital ecosystem." The website includes chart from Europe and the US. The link will refer you to there website The Guardian
Havocscope is a statistic gold mine also has links to Book, Movie, Music and Software piracy. The data and statistics are for countries including Jordan, UK. Video Game
Two other websites which talk about Piracy and the growths that have been happening within it.
Under Cover Strategist Ethical Fan
PC gaming has "around a 93-95% piracy rate" claims Ubisoft CEO" posted on PC gamer.
Using the link below or the reference in the reference page, you can read the full article and why Ubisoft "embracing the free to play model. "
PC Gamer
The Guardian discuss why "Piracy is part of the digital ecosystem." The website includes chart from Europe and the US. The link will refer you to there website The Guardian
Havocscope is a statistic gold mine also has links to Book, Movie, Music and Software piracy. The data and statistics are for countries including Jordan, UK. Video Game
Two other websites which talk about Piracy and the growths that have been happening within it.
Under Cover Strategist Ethical Fan
References
These are the references that we have used for the information on our website feel free to check them out.
- Why I Stopped Pirating and Started Paying for Media. 2014. Why I Stopped Pirating and Started Paying for Media. [ONLINE] Available at:http://lifehacker.com/5990525/why-i-stopped-pirating-and-started-paying-for-media. [Accessed 23 May 2014].
- Harvard Referencing Generator | We love referencing!. 2014. Harvard Referencing Generator | We love referencing!. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.harvardgenerator.com/. [Accessed 23 May 2014].
- YouTube. 2014. YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/. [Accessed 23 May 2014].
- Potts, CP, 2011. Information Technology. 5th ed. Cengage Learning Australia : Jana Raus
- Chart: United States Top Music Piracy Ranking | Statista. 2014. • Chart: United States Top Music Piracy Ranking | Statista. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.statista.com/chart/614/music-downloads-via-bittorrent-in-the-first-half-of-2012/. [Accessed 23 May 2014].
- PC gaming has "around a 93-95% piracy rate" claims Ubisoft CEO | PC Gamer . 2014. PC gaming has "around a 93-95% piracy rate" claims Ubisoft CEO | PC Gamer . [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.pcgamer.com/au/2012/08/22/pc-gaming-has-around-a-93-95-per-cent-piracy-rate-claims-ubisoft-ceo/. [Accessed 23 May 2014].
- Piracy is part of the digital ecosystem | Technology | theguardian.com . 2014.Piracy is part of the digital ecosystem | Technology | theguardian.com . [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/23/monday-note-piracy-sopa. [Accessed 23 May 2014].
- Piracy is part of the digital ecosystem | Technology | theguardian.com . 2014.Piracy is part of the digital ecosystem | Technology | theguardian.com . [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/23/monday-note-piracy-sopa. [Accessed 23 May 2014].
- Video Game Piracy – Statistics about Pirated Video Games. 2014. Video Game Piracy – Statistics about Pirated Video Games. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.havocscope.com/tag/video-game-piracy/. [Accessed 23 May 2014].
- US Piracy is growing in 2011 and beyond. 2014. US Piracy is growing in 2011 and beyond. [ONLINE] Available at: http://ethicalfan.com/2012/04/piracy-volume-in-2011/. [Accessed 23 May 2014].
Survey
Hey,
This week we conducted a survey with 41 people from our school. The survey includes mainly students ages 15-17 years of age and also a couple of teachers. The questions we asked
- Do you pirate video games ?
- How often do you pirate video games ?
- What else do you pirate?
- Do you think its ok to pirate videos?
- What genre do you pirate ?
- Why do you pirate video games off the internet?
- What website do you use?
Our Topic
Pirating media such as music,software,books,movies and T.V but especially video games are becoming a very common thing in society.Information technology that is being used to pirate the video game are high Tec computers, that have a fast and stable internet connection to upload the large files that are the video games. The Pirates either buy the game to then upload it to a file sharing website like The Pirate bay or they take it from the website, to put there as their own.
Some of the concerns are that people are putting their hard work, time and money into the things they make while people are stealing it. Making their work,their time,an their effort just to making a living worthless, pointless and unimportant.Also greatly effected by this are The studios and publishers who spend time and money to create the best game they can
The people involved are pirates who take the Video games and put them on a file sharing website to be downloaded by the general public.They loose money and so do the re-sellers.The advantages for the pirates are that the pirate can get money or they are able to use the game to exploit the user and use the user for malicious purposes. The user, though gets the game and saves money. But there are plenty of disadvantages to this. The user can be hacked and all of their private information can be stolen, The company who made the game loses money, the re seller loses money and could also go out of business. For stakeholders, they lose money and interest in the business. They gain no advantages, unless they are with the pirating company and then they are affected by the disadvantages as much as the companies are.
It isn't unethical to pirate video games, but it is against the law. If you are caught with pirated material you will be finned, but if you are caught distributing pirated material you could go to jail.Not pirating material Is a major law that is being broken every time someone pirates. Although most people don’t care about this issue, some people have very strong opinions about this and choose to withstand from doing this sort of activities
Some solutions for preventing piracy could be to; lock out the game to people without a security code that could come provided with the box, this would stop people playing the game. Bundle more with the game, not just the game its self, add a figurine or trading cards or something. This would make collectors go nuts. Shut down the websites, this would work extremely well
- Daniel
Some of the concerns are that people are putting their hard work, time and money into the things they make while people are stealing it. Making their work,their time,an their effort just to making a living worthless, pointless and unimportant.Also greatly effected by this are The studios and publishers who spend time and money to create the best game they can
The people involved are pirates who take the Video games and put them on a file sharing website to be downloaded by the general public.They loose money and so do the re-sellers.The advantages for the pirates are that the pirate can get money or they are able to use the game to exploit the user and use the user for malicious purposes. The user, though gets the game and saves money. But there are plenty of disadvantages to this. The user can be hacked and all of their private information can be stolen, The company who made the game loses money, the re seller loses money and could also go out of business. For stakeholders, they lose money and interest in the business. They gain no advantages, unless they are with the pirating company and then they are affected by the disadvantages as much as the companies are.
It isn't unethical to pirate video games, but it is against the law. If you are caught with pirated material you will be finned, but if you are caught distributing pirated material you could go to jail.Not pirating material Is a major law that is being broken every time someone pirates. Although most people don’t care about this issue, some people have very strong opinions about this and choose to withstand from doing this sort of activities
Some solutions for preventing piracy could be to; lock out the game to people without a security code that could come provided with the box, this would stop people playing the game. Bundle more with the game, not just the game its self, add a figurine or trading cards or something. This would make collectors go nuts. Shut down the websites, this would work extremely well
- Daniel
Personal Experience
So now it's story time with Daniel,
I am one of the main admins on this blog and I am going to tell you a story. (yay)
One of the main (and only) times that I have pirated a video game was when South Park the Stick of Truth came out. I am old enough to play MA15+ games but to young to play R18 games. I had pirated this because of my age.I don't like to pirate games by my age was a cause in pirating this game. I usually buy my games form my local EB Games or over Steam. The other admin though isn't into video games all that much, so she doesn't pirate video games.
Oh and when I was young and had a DS and my Dad got me a R4 chip. It doesn't really count because it my dad got for me and I was too young and innocent to pirate games. (I loved my DS and R4 chip)
Thanks for reading and please comment your thoughts or stories bellow
-Daniel
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