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- From: neuharth@shelley.u.washington.edu (John Neuharth)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video
- Subject: Re: Video Game copiers
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 23:20:35 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <1993Jan25.195429.11694@mprgate.mpr.ca> vanderby@mprgate.mpr.ca (David Vanderbyl) writes:
- >jjf@byron.u.washington.edu (Matthew Martin) writes:
- >
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- >Why? Why you ask? Give your head a shake. In some countries where game
- >copiers are more easily available their use is greatly increasing.
- >Now let's say a popular game has 100,000 copies made at a loss of revenue
- >of $10 each. I guess you don't consider millions of dollars of lost
- >profits a problem, eh?
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- Boy, you win the award in the "B.S. Statistics" Category. Nobody knows
- how many copies there are...Hmmmm....Let's say there are 1,000,000,000,000
- copies...yeah, yeah...and at $10 apiece, that's $10,000,000,000,000. Wow,
- I guess that IS A big problem, gee, thanks for informing me...
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- >>There is always far millions more people who are 100% legal with their
- >>computer stuff (wherther it be PC, console, etc) than they are who pirate...
- >
- >There are a number of reasons cartridge copying would be much worse than
- >computer games.
- >1) Computer games are about 1/2 the price of cartridge games.
- >2) People who own computers tend to have more money to spend in the first place.
- >3) There are not a lot of places that rent computer games. Every video store
- > in town now rents cartridges.
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- Hello! The obvious reason that copying computer games is much more common is
- that you don't have to spend $250 - $400 on an add-on machine that is good
- for nothing else than making copies!
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- >
- >There can be no doubt that if cartridge copiers become widely available for say
- >$300 that the cartridge-based video game industry would be seriously hurt.
- >(Although I'm sure they would respond with as many different counter-measure
- > as they could think of.)
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- Sorry for even bothering, but I just really had to laugh at your post.
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- -John
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- neuharth@u.washington.edu
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