Speaking about piracy at the music conference Midem, Rovio CEO Mikael Hed said something you don't always hear from executives: "Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business at the end of the day." Granted, this isn't the first time Rovio has made comments of this nature.
According to The Guardian, the Angry Birds developer sees using courts to go after pirates as "futile" -- unless products are being sold which hurt the brand or rip off customers. "We took something from the music industry," continues Hed, "which was to stop treating the customers as users, and start treating them as fans. We do that today: we talk about how many fans we have."
"If we lose that fanbase, our business is done, but if we can grow that fanbase, our business will grow."
Angry Birds boss: 'Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business' [The Guardian via Eurogamer]
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2:00 PM on 01.30.2012 | 
Yeah, because nobody ever eventually buys a game if they enjoy it enough. I'm sure there are countless Steam users that have done exactly that, especially during the big sales, of course they won't admit to it.
Do you work in Ubisoft's PR department or something?
What?
The iOS pirate community is big as hell. Jailbreaking an iOS Device is just a few clicks (and sometimes there are hacks where you just visit a site and it is jailbroken in seconds). I wont detail how to pirate now but a small google search will help and you can install an app where you can download everything for free, directly on your iOS device.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA&feature=related
Just stop posting, its harming the good anti-piracy arguments
This is getting out of hand. It's one thing to call on companies to evolve their business practices with the changing times. But this piracy apologist shit has to go. Normalizing and/or glorifying piracy isn't progressive or forward thinking. It's ignorant and destructive.
I've heard of the human race, and I also know that Steam has doubled its sales seven years in a row while PC is supposedly a piracy haven. Largely because Valve acknowledges that piracy exists, it isn't going anywhere, and choose to use great deals and quality service to persuade the users rather than treating them as criminals.
Rather than the others who basically fight tooth and nail with DRM schemes and other shenanigans that DON'T WORK and end up punishing the people that actually *are* paying.
Pirate a $10 CD, if you like you become a fan, spend around $35 to see them in concert, pay around $20 for shirt/poster ect at concert. In this scenario their is a pretty clear benefit.