With this post I will not support piracy - not a bit. But there are some thruths out there which will show up the current process between copyright and piracy from the sight of the payers - yes, the customers.

Let's make an excample. Let's buy a DVD in a store because you just want to have it.


So you (Person A) go out and by the DVD, go home and want to watch. Assume, that a friend (Person B) is lazy and it is not willed to pay for the same DVD and goes away to download it. Let's compare this 2 fictive persons and what they will get for their effort:

Person A just has the movie right in his hand, in best image quality, with a hardcover and the good feeling, that he has bought it.

Person B has to search and has to wait until he can watch the movie, mostly in slightly less quality, but nearly always without proper Dolby Sound Tracks.

After everyone has it's movie somehow, let's start the movie.

Person A has to find a device which is capable of playing copy protected DVDs. Because Person A wanted to use his media player with an external DVD-Drive, Person A failes to playback the DVD so he has to go out and buy a genuine DVD Player.

Person B just starts his media player and play's the file

After getting a genuine DVD Player, Person A starts the movie. Now he has to select a language he want's to see the FBI Warning, which cannot be skipped. FBI warning steals nearly 30 seconds of the live of person A everytime he wants to watch a legally bought movie.

Person B, starts right in the movie menu or even better, the movie starts right away without waiting for any menus.


Because Person A wants to watch his legally bought DVD also from his media player and also hates to be forced to stare on FBI warnings for several seconds, Person A just rips the DVD on his disk, needing 5 minutes to do so. Also he now has a backup in case the disk get scratches.

Person A was now forced to do an illegal action (at least in europe) to get a better product which is fully useable (in a legal manner)

Person B has all this right from the start.


So - now where exactly is the point of minimizing user experience through copy protection methods, when everyone(!) is able to bypass it in a couple of minutes in return of a better product?

I just HATE when I do buy a DVD and getting forced to watch nonsense Anti Piracy warnings. Most of people are. Most of people has bought the product because they want to watch the movie, not to copy and distribute them.

So the legal buyer get punished where the pirate has the better product.

And there is the point. The industry cannot stop pirates, not even slightly. Instead they should try to deliver the better product in comparison to a pirated copy.

At the moment, the legal buyer get's punished, so why should someone decide to buy a product legaly when he get's a better product illegaly?

The same is true with games. Let's look at the latest games. You cannot play it, if your internet connection is broken, You cannot play it, when Origin is broken by an useless update, you cannot play it because steam decides to wait for their server - which is busy and needs half of a century for an answer .. etc etc

Really guys, that's not how it works - and after it gives no benefit. It will get cracked anyway, so why the hell are you dissapointing valid buyers? It's the fault of the industry alone, that piracy has grown to what it is today and every year it is going worse because many times you are just not able to play your legally bought game, while the pirate can play it ALWAYS without additional waiting time.

Please, industry, care for it, hear my words. Stop making paople hate you.