On 3 Nov 1997, Marc Horowitz wrote:
Someone recently told me that game manufacturers have stopped worrying about piracy. Why? Because most new games come on CD-ROM, and copying a CD-ROM is an expensive, time-consuming operation. Bulk duplication of CD's is substantially cheaper than one-off duplication, and since games are cheap, people will usually buy them rather than copy them.
hmm... Besides the initial cost of a CD writer (which is coming down alot), blank CDs cost $8AU (or about $5US). I would not call that expensive relative to the game cost (about $90AU). On a double speed drive it takes about 30 minutes to duplicate a 600meg game, lots less for those that don't fill the CD :-). I think this is starting to become a real problem.
I'm unconvinced that there really is an Internet copyright problem, outside of traditional media publishers inventing it.
Having visited some friends recently that had most of the recent interesting games written onto a few CDs (multiple games on single CDs) I don't agree. eric