
PIRACY FACT…
Gamers are some of the most prolific pirates on the Internet. A study
released by Macrovision (developers of SafeDisc, an anti-piracy soft-
ware toolkit) showed that 52 percent of gamers have admitted to
downloading pirated games from the Internet, the highest amount of
any Internet user demographic.
Out of the 52 percent who download games, 33 percent reported
downloading International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
images (full CD “clones”) with the copy protection bypassed, often
before the official retail date.
Gamers have to be careful when buying new PC games. In 2004,
there were over 200 large PC games released. If a gamer bought ...