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Article #709886Re: Do only pirates reduce sales hence causing damage to PC Games?
From: CoinSpin
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:28
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:28
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"Zaghadka" <zagh...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:lhodv29g2ucbd8modtsobdr36bjri21dke@4ax.com... | On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:56:18 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, The Enigmatic | One wrote: | | >In article <qa18v2t7g8vea6guk...@4ax.com>, | >pcgame...@yahoo.com says... | > | >>"John" story | >>John enjoys very much PC Games, he buys them all, one day a friend of | >>his asked him to lend him a game he has cause he enjoyed very much the | >>demo and he accepted it. | >>By lending his game to a friend "John" reduced that games sale by one | >>unit cause his friend should have instead bought his own unit | > | >Holy shit! | > | >I just realized what a thief I am! | > | >I borrowed a book from a friend of mine, and I read it. I hurt that | >book's sales! | > | Imagine how the librarians must feel? <G> | Yah, I just heard that book piracy is pushing publishers to stop making books... They're looking into a copy protection scheme that puts the book into a liquid form, and you have to squirt the whole bottle into your eye to get the entire read... If they can just work out the kinks in the delivery system (oops, a drop fell, there goes chapter 17-18)... That and the sudden aneurisms and violent deaths... Eh, but you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggheads...
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