Valve is one of the major players in the gaming arena:
Valve: Piracy is a ‘non-issue’: “
Managing director says piracy is a “service problem.”
Gabe Newell, Valve managing director, has claimed that software piracy is a “non issue” for the company’s Steam gaming service. Instead, he said that the fundamental misconception about piracy is that it is motivated by price, when Value believes that its more down to problems with service.
“For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24/7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable,” he said, in an interview with Cambridge Student.
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(Via AfterDawn.com.)
