Disciples 3 - What kind of protection?

[TippeX]

Originally Posted by Herbert Holman

My guess: russian market is full of piracy.
You think west-european/american market got piracy, but if you stick your nose into russian (eastern europe) illegal download, you will find a far more worse situation.
I wrote a few articles about piracy, and all the WWW market statistics i found around say the same thing, africa is a proxy paradise, sweden the p2p paradise and russian black market (organization who sell illegal warez) is one of the strong on the net.

Of course i also think starforce is not the solution, but... well, i want just to write an article, so i guess i'll wait a bit more

you kind of left out the asian area too as a piracy 'haven'

[Herbert Holman]

Originally Posted by TippeX

you kind of left out the asian area too as a piracy 'haven'

It's because i think asian situation is different from european-american situation
The software market is more advanced, piracy is not a big issue (even considering the industry stats.) because the industry here live on rental copy (i've see this with my eye when i was on "japan vacation") and not direct resell as we do.
America and europe rent they products as well, but asian country do it on a social base, even they marketing is different from "ours", so people who share got most of they copy through multipley rental product.

[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. They've stepped to a new level of piracy with counterfeiting: pressing pirated software in factories and putting it into a nice box. (Although the low price and a directory called Crack on an "original" disc should give you a hint. )